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ravin

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Verb (usu participle)
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rav=in

CIDE DICTIONARY

ravina. 
     Ravenous.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
ravinn. [See 2d Raven.].
     Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
    "Though Nature, red in tooth and claw
    With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
    "  [1913 Webster]
ravinv. t. & i. 
     See Raven, v. t. & i.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ravin, n. poet. or rhet.
1 robbery, plundering.
2 the seizing and devouring of prey.
3 prey.

Idiom
beast of ravin a beast of prey.
Etymology
ME f. OF ravine f. L rapina RAPINE

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