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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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RUIND, n.¹ Also roon(d), ruend, r(e)und; rin(d); roen, royne; and irreg. ¶rung, rong (Sc. 1887 Jam.). See Rind, n.¹ [røn(d), rɪn(d). See D, letter, 2.]

1. The border or selvage of a web of cloth (Sc. 1825 Jam.; Ayr. 1923 Wilson D. Burns 182; Dmf. 1925 Trans. Dmf. and Gall. Antiq. Soc. 36; e.Lth. 1930; Rxb. 1942 Zai); a strip of cloth in gen. (s.Sc. 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gl., reund, roond; Sh. 1866 Edm. Gl.; Ork., Slk. 1968).Sc. 1748 J. Clerk Memoirs (S.H.S.) 213:
I began at 60 years of age to use a soft broad belt having it tied with soft runds.Lnl. 1762 Session Papers, Memorial G. Jarvie (4 July) 9:
The Rind that was upon a Piece of blue Cloth.Sc. 1816 Scott Antiquary xxiv.:
That's no lists or tailor's runds and selvedges o' claith.Ayr. 1819 Contempor. Burns (Paterson 1840) 247:
The rins had he o' Eve's first sark.m.Lth. 1828 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch xx.:
A yard or two of spare runds or selvages.Fif. 1857 H. B. Farnie Golfer's Manual 29:
When the golfer has to compass an unwieldy bundle of rind, more resembling in shape the handle of a cricket-bat than of a slim and graceful play-club.Sc. 1862 A. Hislop Proverbs 179:
The best o' wabs are rough at the roons.Sc. 1887 Jam.:
Runds, rungs, or rongs, are the strong selvages of horse-cloths, girths, etc., and are used as straps, bands, or runners. For example, the slips of wood which form the bottom of a bed are attached and kept in position by rungs.Fif. 1899 Proc. Philosoph. Soc. Gsw. XXX. 54:
Odd uses were found for his [a tailor's] ruends.Ags. 1904 E.D.D.:
The strips of cloth used by gardeners in nailing up wall-trees are pieces of ruind.Ayr. 1953:
My mother used to knit rugs with tailors' rins — that is, the strip cut off from the edge of the web.

Combs.: ruind shune, -slippers, shoes or slippers made of strips or selvages of cloth (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 413). Also fig.Gsw. 1820 Ellis & MacA'Ghobhain Sc. Insurrection of 1820 310:
I bought a pair of rund shoes, for which I paid 2s. 10d.Ayr. 1821 Galt Legatees vii.:
Miss Mally had an orthodox corn, or bunyan, that could as little bear a touch from the royne-slippers of philosophy, as the inflamed gout of polemical controversy.Dmf. 1830 R. Brown Mem. Curl. Mab. 56:
We would suggest cloth or roon shoes as an excellent substitute upon artificial rinks, or any limited ice field, for crampets.Per. 1903 H. Dryerre Blairgowrie 171:
His father was a maker of “rin-shune” in the Overgate.

2. Any thin strip of material, a shred, a rag, fragment. Also fig.Ayr. 1785 Burns To W. Simpson Ps. iii.:
They thought the moon, Just like a sark, or pair o' shoon, Wore by degrees, 'till her last roon.Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 401:
Torn a' in roens.Ayr. 1826 R. Hetrick Poems 79:
When twa auld bodies near-han done Baith gane into a very roon.