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noun

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rand" Quotes from Famous Books

... greatest long distance transmission yet attempted will shortly be undertaken in South Africa where it is proposed to draw power from the famous Victoria Falls. The line from the Falls will run to Johannesburg and through the Rand, a length of 700 miles. It is claimed the Falls are capable of developing 300,000 electric horse power at ...

— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing

... be well to observe that while continuing to believe that, on a review of the facts as they then stood, the British Government were justified in restoring self-government to the Transvaal in 1881, they seem to me to have erred in conceding the Convention of 1884. Though the Rand goldfields had not then been discovered, Lord Derby ought to have seen that the relations of the Transvaal to the adjoining British territories would be so close that a certain measure of British control over its internal administration might come to be needful. This control, which was ...

— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce

... now come to the Rand. We must consider the Rand without any bias or prejudice whatever. The Rand is not a town or city, but a mining district covering 1,600 square miles, whose population of adult males practically balances the whole of the ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

Words linked to "Rand" : writer, part, region, Witwatersrand, Ayn Rand