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▪ I. randing, n.|ˈrændɪŋ| [? f. rand n.1] 1. a. Mil. A kind of basket-work used in fortification in making gabions.
1834–47J. S. Macaulay Field Fortif. (1851) 66 The randing or basket-work is continued to near the top of the pickets. 1876in Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 326/1. b. Basketry. The action or process of weaving rands (sense 3 c); randed work.
1903R. M. Jacot Useful Cane Work i. p. x/2 The basket maker..would speak of driving down the stakes..into the ‘randing’ or ‘pairing’ of a bottom. 1912T. Okey Introd. Art of Basket-Making ix. 91 Randing is sub-divided into Coarse, Slight, Light, Fine and Close. 1946N. Wymer Eng. Country Crafts vii. 73 He now fills in the sides by weaving single willows..a stage known as ‘randing’. 1964H. Hodges Artifacts x. 146 The simplest weave, randing, was done with a single rod passed behind one stake and in front of the next. 2. ‘A narrow frieze running along the edge of a knife handle’ (Sheffield Gloss. 1888). ▪ II. randing see rand v.1–randv.4 |