peeling vs rind

peeling

noun
  • The act of removing the outer surface in strips. 

  • Strips of an outer rind or surface that has been removed. 

rind

noun
  • A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc 

  • tree bark 

  • The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind" 

  • An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill. 

verb
  • To remove the rind from. 

How often have the words peeling and rind occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )