noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A shoe made of untanned leather. obsolete
2. 2
   A coarse woman. obsolete
3. 3
   An animal in poor condition. Scotland, obsolete

Etymology

From Old English rifeling (“a kind of shoe”).

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