(rand) noun
1. In shoe manufacturing, a strip of leather at the heel of a shoe to which the lifts are attached.
2. Brit. Dial. & Scot. A river border overgrown with reeds, or the unplowed border round a field; margin; strip. [OE, border, edge]

(rand, ränd) noun
The standard monetary unit of South Africa, worth in 1964 about $1.40. [<THE RAND]

(rand), The
See WITWATERSRAND.