- denoting the land bordering a river or the sea, this term is found in minor names and street-names of coastal areas, such as North and South Strand Street in Stranraer. The term is of uncertain origin, but is found in medieval Scottish texts dating back to the fifteenth century. Andrew of Wynton's The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland (c.1420) describes how the River Nile bursts out
at the strande... by the Rede Se [Red Sea].