riveling
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of riveling
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A rough kind of shoe or sandal made of rawhide, formerly worn in Scotland.
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noun
- A rough kind of shoe or sandal made of rawhide, formerly worn in Scotland.
- (obsolete)A Scotsman.
- A wrinkle.
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of rivel
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Etymology
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-,…
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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 *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”).
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