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Ravine definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RAV'INE, n. A long deep hollow worn by a stream or torrent of water; hence, any long deep hollow or pass through mountains, etc.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, rapine, rush, from Latin rapina rapine Date: circa 1772 a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a deep narrow gorge or cleft. Derivatives: ravined adj. Etymology: F (as RAVIN)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ravin Rav"in, Ravine Ravine, 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Raven Rav"en, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See Ravine, Rapine.] [Written also ravin, and ravine.] 1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Raven Rav"en, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix. 27.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ravin Rav"in, Ravine Rav"ine, v. t. & i. See Raven, v. t. & i.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ravine Ra*vine", n. [F., a place excavated by a torrent, a ravine, fr. ravir to snatch or tear away, L. rapere; cf. L. rapina rapine. See Ravish, and cf. Rapine, Raven prey.] 1. A torrent of water. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. 2. A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(ravines) A ravine is a very deep narrow valley with steep sides. The bus is said to have overturned and fallen into a ravine. = gorge N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Gorge, defile, deep pass, mountain cleft, gulch, gully.

Moby Thesaurus

abysm, abyss, arroyo, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, clove, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, dale, defile, dell, dike, dingle, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill, glen, gorge, groove, grove, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter, hole, incision, intervale, joint, kloof, leak, linn, lunar rill, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, split, strath, trench, trough, vale, valley, void, wadi, wash