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riveling

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English

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Etymology 1

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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 *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

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Noun

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riveling (plural rivelings)

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

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

Noun

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riveling (plural rivelings)

  1. A wrinkle.

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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riveling

  1. present participle and gerund of rivel

Anagrams

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