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rind ((n.)) † Nfld

• n. the bark of trees.

  See also: rinding  

  • Although this is in general an archaic, if not obsolete, word for bark, it is still current in Newfoundland and Labrador, and, locally, in Nova Scotia.

  • 1620  The rindes of these trees serue to couer their Stages, and necessary roomes, with turfes on them; so that in a fvv yeeres, I feare, that most of the good timber trees neere the Sea-side, vvere men vse to fish, vvill be either felled, spoyled or burned.
  • 1771  (1792)  At nine I went myself with three hands in the skiff to Stage Cove, and carried all the rinds which were below the house.
  • 1829  (1964)  Winter's work . . . This metonymous term is the quantitative one for the total of sticks, lumber, rinds and so forth that a man would produce while living with his family away from his settlement "in the woods for the winter."
  • 1966  [Old Song]
    Sods and rinds to cover yer flake,
    Cake and tea for supper,
    Codfish in the spring o' the year,
    Fried in maggoty butter.