riveling

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

present participle and gerund of rivel

rivel

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• Noun
• Noun

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Synonyms

corrugate

crinkling

crisp

goffer

lifting

wrinkle

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: riveling

Inherited from Old English: rifeling

Cognate with Scots: rivellin

Cognate with French: ravelin

Cognate with Old Norse: hriflingr

Cognate with Latin: carpisculum

Cognate with Latvian: kurpe

Cognate with Lithuanian: kurpe

Cognate with Welsh: crydd

In summary

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”).