riveling

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English riveling, reviling, from Old English rifeling, hrifeling (a shoe or sandal of raw hide, a kind of shoe or sandal), from Proto-Germanic *hrifilingaz (shoe), from Proto-Germanic base *href-, *hraf- (covering, shoe), from Proto-Indo-European *kerwp-, *krēp- (cloth, rag, lobe, fold, shoe). Cognate with Scots rivellin, rilling, rullion (a shoe of rawhide), French ravelin ("shoe of rawhide"; < Germanic), Old Norse hriflingr (leather shoe), Latin carpisculum (a kind of shoe, base, groundwork), Latvian kurpe (shoe), Lithuanian kurpe (one who repairs shoes, cobbler), Welsh crydd (shoemaker).

Alternative forms

Noun

riveling (plural rivelings)

  1. A rough kind of shoe or sandal made of rawhide, formerly worn in Scotland.
  2. (obsolete) A Scotsman.

Etymology 2

From Middle English riveling, from rivelen (to wrinkle). More at rivel.

Noun

riveling (plural rivelings)

  1. A wrinkle.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

riveling

  1. present participle of rivel

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