Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To wrinkle; corrugate; shrink: as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers.
  • noun A wrinkle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A wrinkle; a rimple.
  • transitive verb obsolete To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
  • verb transitive To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.
  • noun obsolete A wrinkle; a rimple.

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Examples

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  • I was thinking that it could easily rivel San Miguel or other colonial cities for atmosphere and beautiful colonial mansions to restore and wondering why it was not a bigger draw.

    Beautiful Zacatecas 2006

  • Here's the kind of insane, right wind rivel you can find here every day of the week:

    "Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Rho = name of a Fling in the West Tendril riada = small river rimple = canyon or valley with soft slopes rivel = ridge robin = island bird, blue-green in color, neither useful nor an extreme pest

    SKENE GLOSSARY (SKENE TO ENGLISH) Maggie Jochild 2004

  • Rho = name of a Fling in the West Tendril riada = small river rimple = canyon or valley with soft slopes rivel = ridge robin = island bird, blue-green in color, neither useful nor an extreme pest

    Archive 2004-12-12 Maggie Jochild 2004

  • Description: These are collection of foam packaging building and home-made hills... they can often rivel or surpass manufactured foam terrain.

    Archive 2005-11-01 MaksimSmelchak 2005

  • Description: These are collection of foam packaging building and home-made hills... they can often rivel or surpass manufactured foam terrain.

    MODELLING: Inexpensive terrain... MaksimSmelchak 2005

  • If she has only milk and flour she can still make rivel soup.

    Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking Unknown

  • Pies are made with a great variety of ingredients from the apple pie we all know to the rivel pie which is made from flour, sugar, and butter.

    Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking Unknown

  • To Reeve. _v.a. _ To rivel; to draw into wrinkles.

    The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

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