rand

A strip of cloth or leather used to support the shoe at the heel.

To storm; rant.

A margin, border, or edge, as the bank of a stream.

A strip or slice of flesh cut from the margin of a part or from between two parts.

A hank of line or twine; a strip of leather.

Rushes on the borders and edges of land near a river.

In shoemaking:

The edge of the upper-leather; a seam of a shoe.

A thin inner shoe-sole, as of cork.