riveling

Meanings

Noun

• A rough kind of shoe or sandal made of rawhide, formerly worn in Scotland.
• A Scotsman.
• A wrinkle.

Verb

• Present participle of rivel

Origin

• From Middle English riveling, reviling, from Old English rifeling, hrifeling, from Proto-Germanic *hrifilingaz ("shoe"), from Proto-Germanic *href-, *hraf-, from Proto-Indo-European *kerwp-, *krēp-. Cognate with Scots rivellin, rilling, rullion, French ravelin , 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").
• From Middle English riveling, from rivelen. More at rivel.