ravin down

obsolete To gobble or gulp something down with rapacious hunger. Used by Shakespeare in the play Measure for Measure. So every scope by the immoderate use / Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, / Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, / A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.

See also: down

See also:

short measure
measure out
put the question
measure off
beyond measure
gulp down
by every measure
benchmark
a Roland for an Oliver
Roland

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