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Rand n.

Rim; edge; border. (South Africa)

The monetary unit of the Union of South Africa.

The Rand, a rocky gold-bearing ridge in South Africa, about thirty miles long, on which Johannesburg is situated; also, the gold-mining district including this ridge.

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Etymology of 'Rand'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rand" Quotes from Famous Books

... gr kring de rum, och i djupet kokar vgen, och dess yta hljs med skum. Blixtarna i molnen draga hr och dr en blodig rand, alla havets fglar jaga skrikande emot ...

— Fritiofs Saga • Esaias Tegner

... of Joseph Purcell, entered the employ of Bowie Dash & Co. as a boy. From there he went to Williams, Russell & Co., then to the Union Coffee Co., and later to Hard & Rand. He is now head of the firm of Alex. ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... this Society for the year 1863 is a very pleasant paper by the late Dr. Ephraim Eliot, giving an account of the leading physicians of Boston during the last quarter of the last century. The names of Lloyd, Gardiner, Welsh, Rand, Bulfinch, Danforth, John Warren, Jeffries, are all famous in local history, and are commemorated in our medical biographies. One of them, at least, appears to have been more widely known, not only as one of the first aerial voyagers, ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

Words linked to "Rand" : reef, Ayn Rand, writer, South African monetary unit, region, cent, Transvaal, Witwatersrand, part