ravin

• raven
• ravine

Borrowed from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapina (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”)

• enPR: răvʹən, IPA^(key): /ˈɹævən/
• Rhymes: -ævən

ravin (third-person singular simple present ravins, present participle ravining, simple past and past participle ravined)

1. (obsolete) To dine or feast upon plunder or goods seized by violence.
   • 1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), The Seven Against Thebes in Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 124.

     Now, if ye hear the bruit of death or wounds,
     Give not yourselves o'ermuch to shriek and scream,
     For Ares ravins upon human flesh.

ravin (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven
   • 1850, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H.:

     Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw / With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

ravin (comparative more ravin, superlative most ravin)

1. (obsolete) ravenous
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, III. ii. 117:

     Better 'twere / I met the ravin lion when he roared / With sharp constraint of hunger;

• ravin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Arvin, Narvi, Vanir, invar

From ravine or raviner, from Old French ravine, from Latin rapina.

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.vɛ̃/

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ravin m (plural ravins)

1. ravine

• “ravin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

ravin (singular a ravin, plural a fu ravin)

1. woman

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Craig Alan Volker, The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (1998), page 90