{ Rav″in, Rav″ine } (răv″'n), 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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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.