Definition of "rand"

rand¹

/ɹænd/

noun
plural rands
1. (obsolete, now dialect) The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
2. (obsolete, now dialect) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
  Quotations
  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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
3. (dialect) A border, edge or rim.
4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
5. (basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

rand²

/ɹænd/

noun
plural rands or rand
1. A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
2. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

rand³

/ɹænd/

verb
third-person singular simple present rands, present participle randing, simple past and past participle randed
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To rant; to storm.
  Quotations
  […] 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.
  c. 1601 (date written), Thomas Decker [i.e., Thomas Dekker], Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], North-ward Hoe. […], London: […] G[eorge] Eld, published 1607; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, Northward Hoe (The Tudor Facsimile Texts; 23), [Amersham, Buckinghamshire: John S. Farmer], 1914, Act IV, signatures F, verso – F2, recto

rand⁴

/ɹænd/

noun
plural rands
1. (programming) A random number.