▪ I. riveling1 Now dial. and Hist.
(ˈrɪvəlɪŋ)
Forms: 1 rifeling, 3 riueling (4 -yng), 4 ryve-, (9) riveling; 5 revelyng(e, Sc. rewelyn, rewlyng, raweling; 9 dial. rivilin, riv(e)lin, etc.
[OE. rifeling, perh. related to rivel n.1, rivelled a. ON. hriflingr and MHG. ribbalîn, occurring only in the Perceval legend, represent OF. revelin (rov-, rouvelin), which was no doubt from early ME. The mod.F. rivelin a shop-worn shoe (Littré) may be the same word.]
1. A shoe of raw hide. = rilling n.1
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 125 Obstrigelli, rifelingas. ? a 1300 MS. Digby 172, fol. 146 b/1 Perone .i. anglice ‘riueling’. c 1300 in Langtoft Chron. (Rolls) II. 264 Somme is left na thing, Bot his rough ryveling To hippe tharynne. 1338 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 282 Þou getes no þing, but þi riuelyng, to hang þer inne. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxix. 4421 Hys knychtis weryd revelyngs Off hydis or off hart hemmynys. c 1470 Henry Wallace i. 219 Ane Ersche mantill it war thi kynd to wer;..Rouch rewlyngis apon thi harlot fete. 1483 Cath. Angl. 305/2 A Revelynge, pero. |
| 1837 R. Dunn Ornith. Ork. & Shetl. 13 A kind of shoe of the untanned skins of the ox and seal, which are called rivilins. 1880 Times 21 Sept. 10/5 At Symbister we note that most of the boatmen wear ‘rivilins’. |
† 2. transf. A wearer of rivelings; a Scot. rare.
| c 1300 in Langtoft Chron. (MS. Fairf. 22) lf.4 Tprut! skot riueling, In vnseli timing Crope þu out of cage. a 1352 Minot Poems ii. 19 Rughfute riueling, now kindels þi care. |
▪ II. † ˈriveling2 Obs.
In 7 riuel(l)ing.
[Perh. based upon rivelet, obs. form of rivulet.]
A rivulet or rill.
| 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 5 Hypocrenes pure riuelings of wit. 1621 ― Nat. Embassie (1877) 61 Ninus Tombe, Erected neare a Christall riueling. 1622 Drayton Poly-olb. xxviii. 256 Swale bonny Codbeck brings, And Willowbeck with her, two pretty Riuellings. |