Noun: rand
| Singular | rand |
| Plural | rands; rand |
Sample Sentences
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at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh
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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. [1963, Field Studies [Council of Great Britain], volume 1, page 132]
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Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils. [1984, Herman W. Gabriel, Glossary of Landscape & Vegetation Ecology for Alaska, page 64, entry "lagg":]
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[…] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep. [2013, Peter D. Moore, European Mires, page 288:]
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They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins [1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
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They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue. [1867, Anderson, Rhymes, page 44]
Nouns inflected like rand
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind. See: Old English Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "rand"
English Nouns
rind, English Nouns
Rand, German Nouns
Rand, Galician Nouns
randa.