rivel

present singular third person rivels · US participle present riveling · UK participle present rivelling · US participle past riveled · US past riveled · UK participle past rivelled · UK past rivelled

1. intransitiveTo shrivel, wrinkle (up).
2. transitiveTo 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 […]

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 279

plural rivels

1. obsoleteA 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, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XII.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC

plural rivels

1. USA kind of small dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup, especially among the Pennsylvania Dutch and other Germans.