ravine
verb
- to score with ravines
- to hollow a ravine or cleft out of
noun
- very tight valley, which is often the product of streamcutting erosion
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɹæv(ɪ)n/ / /ˈɹæv(ə)n/
adj
Etymology: See ravin.
- Obsolete spelling of ravin.
“[…] I am the cauſe / His death vvas ſo effected: Better 'tvvere / I met the rauine Lyon vvhen he roar'd / VVith ſharpe conſtraint of hunger: better 'tvvere, / That all the miſeries vvhich nature ovves / VVere mine at once.”
noun
Etymology: See ravin.
- Alternative spelling of ravin.
“And sure since we were borne, / Ruine of one ravine, was there none gretter: […]”
“[H]e [Odo of Bayeux] had […] by rauine and extortion, raked together greate maſſes of Golde and treaſure, whiche he cauſed to be grounde into fine pouder, and (filling therewith dyuers pottes and crockes) had ſounk them in the Bottomes of Riuers, intending therwithall to haue purchaſed the Papacie of Rome: […]”
verb
Etymology: See ravin.
- Alternative spelling of ravin.
“As God was able to ſaue the bodies of his ſeruantes, that they were not hurt in the fire, as he was able to keepe Ionas ſafe, in the whales bellie: ſo can he preſerue our bodies in the earth. Yea, much better, becauſe the fire naturally conſumeth, and the fiſhes bellie deſtroieth thoſe things which they rauine: but the earth naturally preſerueth that which is earthie.”
“[I]t is his [Satan's] Maſtery to ſpread an unſeen venome in the Bovvels, thence to diffuſe its ſelf through't, mix vvith the vital ſpirit, and convert that kindly heat vvhich ſhould animate, into thoſe vvild irregular flames vvhich ravine and conſume.”