ravine

1. (archaic) Alternative form of raven (“rapine, rapacity; prey, plunder”).Examples: "And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem’d so fair, […] Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation’s final law— Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek’d against his creed— Who loved, who suffer’d countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal’d within the iron hills?"alt-ofalternativearchaic