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Ravin vs Bavin - What's the difference?

ravin | bavin |

As nouns the difference between ravin and bavin

is that ravin is food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven while bavin is a bundle of wood, or twigs which may be used in broom making. Southern England term. Also, a fagot bound with only one band.

As an adjective ravin

is ravenous.

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;
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    bavin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bundle of wood, or twigs which may be used in broom making. Southern England term. Also, a fagot bound with only one band.
  • (UK, dialect) impure limestone
  • * 1839 : The Silurian System by , i. xxxvi. 484
    • "The concretions…are called ?bavin ,? the shale associated with them being termed ?rotch.?"
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