rind

1) An iron fitting which serves to support an upper millstone on the spindle (OED).

The early Yorkshire evidence lends weight to the argument that the final ‘d’ is excrescent: 1322 Et in la Ryne molendini anterioris de nouo facienda cum j pecia ferri empta ad idem, vjd, Leeds

1399 ‘one Ryne for the said mill’, Selby

1512 Item ii ryne spyndilles xijd, York.

places Selby York Leeds
dates 1322 1399 1512

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