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 *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

• reveling, rivlin (dialectal)

Noun

riveling (plural rivelings)

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

Related terms

• rullion

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 corresponding lemma form.

Verb

riveling

1. present participle and gerund of rivel

Anagrams

• Vierling, livering, reliving, reviling, vierling