riveling

Also used as

riveling is also the present participle and gerund of rivel.

Forms of riveling

Origin of riveling

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”).

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Related words

• rullion

Questions about riveling

What does riveling mean?

Riveling means a rough kind of shoe or sandal made of rawhide, formerly worn in Scotland.

What part of speech is riveling?

Riveling is a noun.

What is the plural of riveling?

The plural of riveling is rivelings.