rand
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rand1 /rand, rant/
▶noun
- 1 the basic monetary unit of South Africa, equal to 100 cents.
- 2 S. African a long rocky hillock.
– origin sense 1 from the Rand, a goldfield district near Johannesburg; sense 2 from Afrik., lit. ‘edge’; rel. to rand2.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rand2 /rand/
▶noun a strip of leather placed under the back part of a shoe or boot to make it level before the lifts of the heel are attached.
– origin OE (denoting a border): of Gmc origin.
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