rand

(Inglés)

Noun

1. The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
2. (dialectal, obsolete) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
3. (UK, dialectal, rare) A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
5. A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

Verb

To rant; to storm.

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ɹænd/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

brink

edge

rim

brim

border

margin

mountain chain

mountain range

nook

outskirts

selvage

stigmatize

welt

chain of mountains

selvedge

Witwatersrand

edging

extremes

fringe

latus