Rind vs Bard - What's the difference?
rind | bard |
tree bark
A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
* Shakespeare
* Milton
The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind "
* 1939 , Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance , London: Thornton Butterworth, p.
* 1940 , Amy Helen Bell (ed.), London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, 1940-1941 , published 2002, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, ISBN 9780612732810, p.
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* 2010 , (David Stubbs), Send Them Victorious: England's Path to Glory 2006-2010 , O Books (Zero Books), ISBN 9781846944574, p.
A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
* 1924 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 2.
(by extension) A poet.
A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
(cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
Specifically, Peruvian bark.
To cover a horse in defensive armor.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 29:
(cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
As nouns the difference between rind and bard
is that rind is tree bark or rind can be an iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill while bard is a professional poet and singer, as among the ancient celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men or bard can be a piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb (often in the plural).As verbs the difference between rind and bard
is that rind is to remove the rind from while bard is to cover a horse in defensive armor.rind
English
(wikipedia rind)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rinde, from Proto-Germanic *rind?. Cognate with (etyl) Rinde.Noun
(en noun)- Sweetest nut hath sourest rind .
- Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.
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- Taking the money from a man when he's got his pants down. What are you, a doctor or a tailor's tout? Thirty bucks! If I figured you'd have the rind to touch me that much I'd have lashed them up with a pair of braces!
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- April 9, 1940. Then one of our RAF customers had the rind to suggest that ‘you women ought to give up smoking for the duration you know’. This , when they have the alternative of smoking pipes which is not open to us, [...]
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- [About a football match.] Come the second half and the Trinidadians and Tobagans had the immortal rind to make excursions into the England half, the spectacle of which was deeply offensive to those whose memories extend to those happy days before 1962, when independence was unwisely conferred on this archipelago. Back in those days, a game like this would have presented little anxiety. Any goals scored by the Trinidadians, or Tobagans for that matter, would have been instantly become the property of the Crown and therefore added to England's tally. Glad times – 22 men working together for a common aim. However, such is the insolence of the modern age that these dark fellows dared approach the England penalty box, forelocks untugged, as if demanding instant entry to the Garrick club without having been put up by existing members.
Derived terms
* immortal rind * pork rindSee also
* peel * skinEtymology 2
Cognate with Flemish (rijne), Low German ryn.Alternative forms
* rynd * rineAnagrams
* ----bard
English
Etymology 1
(15th c.) from (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia bard) (en noun)- But the divine power cannot be jealous (nay, according to the proverb, 'bards tell a lie'),
- the bard of Avon
Derived terms
* bardicEtymology 2
From (etyl) barde. English since the late 15th century.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The defensive armor with which the horses of the ancient knights or men at arms were covered, or, to use the language of the time, barded , consisted of the following pieces made either of metal or jacked leather, the Chamfron, Chamfrein or Shaffron, the Criniere or Main Facre, the Poitrenal, Poitral or Breast Plate, and the Croupiere or Buttock Piece.
