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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 928 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAVINE , a deep, narrow See also:

gorge, cleft or valley in a See also:mountain, worn by the violent See also:rush of See also:water, whence the name, which comes through Fr. from See also:Lat. rapina, violent See also:robbery or See also:plunder (rapere, to seize). The doublet " ravin " or See also:raven," robbery, greed, has given See also:place to the more learned See also:form " rapine," but is still seen in " ravenous," greedy, voracious.

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