OE (1955) 89 Obstrigilli, rifelingas.
a1200 Glossae in Apollinarem Sidonium in (1885) Classical Ser. I. v. 44 Perone, i. anglice, riueling.
a1325 (c1300) (Cambr.) (1839) 307 (MED) Sum es left na thing Boute his rivyn riveling, to hippe thar-hinne.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 282 Þou getes no þing, but þi riuelyng, to hang þer inne.
a1425 (Stonyhurst) f. 49 Pero, a reuelinge.
1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 219 Ane Ersche mantill it war thi kynd to wer,..Rouch rewlyngis apon thi harlot fete.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Nero) viii. l. 4419 His knychtis weryt rewelynys Off hidis, or of hertys hemmynys.
?c1550 J. Ben Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum in G. Barry (1805) 435 Homines hic Laici habent Calceos ex belluorum pellibus ligulo contractos vernacule Rifflings vocatos.
1807 J. Hall II. 527 Both sexes, instead of shoes, for the most part wear a sort of sandals on their feet, called rivelins.
1880 21 Sept. 10/5 At Symbister we note that most of the boatmen wear ‘rivilins’.
1900 15 Sept. I min get dis rivlins reddy ta pit apo' my feet, if he's gaen ta be ony mair rivlin wadder.
1939 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ i. 29 Shod in their rawhide rivelins They walk with the springing step of mountaineers.
1956 U. Venables ii Folk say such roads only served to wear out their rivlins.
1986 J. Swann 4/2 The brogue and rivelin makers of Ireland and Scotland.
2005 Recorded Interview (SCOTS transcript) in www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk Interview 14 An old man..was wearin these like cloth kinda shoes that they called rivlins in Shetland.