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 ; arimple .
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Examples
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Comments (1) 1 Comment the Coyote [SUPPER GENIS] is MAD LOONEY MAD he was watching his old rivel BUGS Bunny on cartoon ally [he wanted to be on there but no one thought him good enough so that made him only mader] he was watching how Ceceil defeated Bugs then he decied that he would do the same thing [with a twist] So he calls his cousin Ralph Wolf and agrees.
Flixnjoystix.com! » The Looney Tunes Gang Hits the Net! 2006
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If she has only milk and flour she can still make rivel soup.
Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking Unknown
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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
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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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