Meanings
- not comparableHaving a (specific kind of) rind (hard, tough outer layer).
All the indications are there that the early dairy farmers did make rinded cheese.
1999, Angela Heuzenroeder, Barossa Food1 more example
And so the poor child, with her soul’s hunger and her illusions of self-flattery, began to nibble at this thick-rinded fruit of the tree of knowledge, filling her vacant hours with Latin, geometry, and the forms of the syllogism […]
1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and SonsSynonyms: skinned
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of rind
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving a (specific kind of) rind (hard, tough outer layer).
antonym(s) of “having a rind”
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rinded. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rinded
“rinded.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rinded. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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