Noun

(en noun)

A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.

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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=3 citation , passage=He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.}}

Noun

(-)

The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.

* (1800-1859)

*:men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory

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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine ; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

*1951 , (Isaac Asimov), (1974 (Panther Books) Ltd publication), Part V: “The Merchant Princes”,

*:“You could join Wiscard’s remnants in the Red Stars. I don’t know, though, if you’d call that fighting or piracy. Or you could join our present gracious viceroy?—?gracious by right of murder, pillage, rapine , and the word of a boy Emperor, since rightfully assassinated.”

:(Shakespeare)