Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wrinkle.
- noun A rough kind of shoe or sandal of rawhide, formerly worn in Scotland.
- noun A Scotchman.
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- noun A rough kind of
shoe orsandal made ofrawhide , formerly worn in Scotland. - noun A
wrinkle . - verb Present participle of
rivel .
Etymologies
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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 *hrefilingaz (“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").
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From Middle English riveling, from rivelen ("to wrinkle"). More at rivel.
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From rivel.
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Examples
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The slums of Paris and Stockholm are soon riveling the american innder cities, and Europe didn't need 400 years of Slavery and Segregations to get there.
Voters As Mad Scientists, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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