- a variation of raven.
ravin
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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It was an everlasting pity Alden contradicted him, for he broke out like one ravin distracted mad.
From The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Four Winds Harbor was beginning to be a thing of dream and glamour and enchantment—a spellbound haven where no tempest might ever ravin.
From Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Bartle stared at him; "Bodagh Buie's!—what do I know about Bodagh Buie? are you ravin'?"
From Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
"Jenny," said David, now perfectly bewildered by all this, to him, wholly incomprehensible ravin, "ye say I'm fou; but, if I'm no greatly mistaen, ye're the fouest o' the twa."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
Is there no peace without bloodshed under the sun and moon, no respite from ravin even when the night is hooded like a dead monk?
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
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