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rind ((n.))†
Nfld
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the bark of trees.
See: 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.
Quotations
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
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
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.
Sods and rinds to cover yer flake,
Cake and tea for supper,
Codfish in the spring o' the year,
Fried in maggoty butter.