ravin down

English

Verb

ravin down (third-person singular simple present ravins down, present participle ravining down, simple past and past participle ravined down)

1. (archaic) To gobble ravenously, devour voraciously
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 128:

     Our natures do pursue, / Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,