rand

noun

1. The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.

   “at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh”

   “Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.”

   “Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.”

   “[…] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep.”

2. (dialectal, obsolete)A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.

   “They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins”

3. (UK, dialectal, rare)A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.

   “They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue.”

4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
5. A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.
6. A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
7. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.
8. A random number.
9. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of rand (the currency of south Africa)

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete)To rant; to storm.

   “[…] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to VVare, to meete a Gentleman of the Court.”

name

1. (South-Africa)The Witwatersrand, a gold-mining geographic area also known as the Reef in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, of which the principal city is Johannesburg.
2. A surname.
3. A diminutive of the male given names Randall or Randolph.

   “In a Fox Business interview on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) alluded to the distinction between private and government responses to offensive speech, but his comments were ambiguous enough that an uncharitable viewer could easily interpret them as approval of the latter.”

4. A number of places, other than in South Africa:
5. A number of places, other than in South Africa:
6. A number of places, other than in South Africa:
7. A number of places, other than in South Africa:
8. A number of places, other than in South Africa:
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Research and Development: a nonprofit global policy think tank.

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of reasonable and nondiscriminatory: a standard used with respect to licensing.