Sekirov Dictionary

rivel

/ˈɹɪvəl/

verb 2
noun 2
forms 5

verb2

To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
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To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.
- they crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies […] — 2001

noun2

(US) A kind of small dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup, especially among the Pennsylvania Dutch and other Germans.
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(no longer used) A wrinkle; a rimple.
- It wanteth the due parching and ripening against the sunne: and by that meanes commeth short of the rivels and blacknesse that the outlandish pepper hath. — 1601

forms

riveled · rivelled · riveling · rivelling · rivels

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