ravin down

English

Verb

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

(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,

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