rynd

From Middle English rynd, rynde, ryne, from Middle Dutch rijn, rine (“rynd”) or Middle Low German rîn, rîne (“rynd”).

rynd (plural rynds)

1. (historical) A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone, by which the stone is supported on the spindle.

• rhynd

• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Rynd”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
• “rynd”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

rynd

1. Alternative form of rind (“bark”)

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hrinþaz

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rynd n

1. bull, ox

• ryndfłaś