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Definition of Ravines

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.
ravine
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.
ravine
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.
Ravine
Ravin Rav"in, Ravine Rav"ine, v. t. & i. See Raven, v. t. & i.
Ravine
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 Ravines 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...
- The Ravine (Italian: La cattura) is a 1969 Italian-Yugoslav-American war drama film written and directed by Paolo Cavara and starring David McCallum, Nicoletta...
- 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...
- the ridge which separated the nearby Sulfur and Cemetery Ravines and filling in those two ravines. Palo Verde Elementary School was buried in the process...
- Ravine is a census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The po****tion was 629 at the 2000 census. Ravine is located...
- of Chicago. Ravine Park, as its name suggests, comprises one of the thirty or so ravines lining the North S**** of Chicago. The ravines formed as water...
- 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 ravine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ravine is a landform. Ravine may also refer to: Ravine, Pennsylvania, U.S., a census-designated place...
- ravine system forms a part of a larger network of ravines that extends towards the Oak Ridges Moraine, located north of Toronto. The largest ravines surround...
- meandering ravine, accompanied by the gentle flow of a petite stream. At first, it may seem that natural features like streams and ravines are ordinary...