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Cavin vs Ravin - What's the difference?

cavin | ravin |

As nouns the difference between cavin and ravin

is that cavin is (military) a hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place while ravin is (obsolete) food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.

As an adjective ravin is

(obsolete) ravenous.

cavin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (military) A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
    • (Farrow)
    (Webster 1913)

    ravin

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ravine

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven
  • * 1850 , :
    • Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw / With ravine , shriek'd against his creed

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) ravenous
  • * 1598 , , III. ii. 117:
    • Better 'twere / I met the ravin lion when he roared / With sharp constraint of hunger;
    (Webster 1913) ----