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Definition of Ravine

Ravine
Ravin Rav"in, Ravine Ravine, n. [See 2d Raven.] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. ``Fowls of ravyne.' --Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. --Tennyson.
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Raven Rav"en, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See Ravine, Rapine.] [Written also ravin, and ravine.] 1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
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Raven Rav"en, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix. 27.
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Ravin Rav"in, Ravine Rav"ine, v. t. & i. See Raven, v. t. & i.
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Ravine Ra*vine", n. [F., a place excavated by a torrent, a ravine, fr. ravir to snatch or tear away, L. rapere; cf. L. rapina rapine. See Ravish, and cf. Rapine, Raven prey.] 1. A torrent of water. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. 2. A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.

Meaning of Ravine from wikipedia

- A ravine is a landform that is narrower than a canyon and is often the product of streambank erosion. Ravines are typically classified as larger in scale...
- Look up ravine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ravine is a landform. Ravine may also refer to: Ravine, Pennsylvania, U.S., a census-designated place...
- Chavez Ravine is a shallow canyon in Los Angeles, California. It sits in a large promontory of hills north of downtown Los Angeles, next to Major League...
- Tuckerman Ravine is a glacial cirque sloping eastward on the southeast face of Mt. Washington, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Although it draws...
- Look up Chavez Ravine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chávez Ravine may refer to: Chavez Ravine, the area in Los Angeles, California, where Dodger...
- Secret Ravine is a perennial tributary of Miners Ravine which shortly thereafter runs into Dry Cr**** in Placer County, California. Its course lies within...
- In the Ravine (Russian: В овраге, romanized: V ovrage) is a 1900 novella by Anton Chekhov first published in the No.1, January issue of Zhizn magazine...
- through 1965. The stadium is commonly referred to as Chavez Ravine Stadium (or just "Chavez Ravine"), after the geographic feature in which the stadium sits...
- The Toronto ravine system is a distinctive feature of the city's geography, consisting of a network of deep ravines, which forms a large urban forest...
- of Chavez Ravine refers to resistance to the government acquisition of land largely owned by Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles' Chavez Ravine. The efforts...