Raven (verb)

It has a transitive use (the object being the things being seized) and two intransitive subtleties:

 1b.intr. To plunder; to seek after or for spoil or booty; to go about with intent to plunder; (later also more generally) to maraud, rampage.

2a.intr. To eat voraciously; to feed hungrily or greedily; (also) to prey on or upon. Also fig.

It is used intransitively in our work.

  • 17.054 There a host of Wargs came ravening

“raven, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 June 2015.

Ravenhill

  • 11.005 in a height called Ravenhill.
  • 11.006 to the feet of Ravenhill.
  • 13.054 and so to a road running towards Ravenhill.
  • 15.010 This very height was once named Ravenhill,
  • 17.054 near to the watch-post on Ravenhill.
  • 17.060 He had taken his stand on Ravenhill among the Elves –
  • 18.001 He was lying on the flat stones of Ravenhill,

Reek

Both the noun and the verb are from older Germanic forms meaning “smoke”. That is a brutal oversimplification of an absolutely fascinating morning spent in the OED reading about the relationship of “reek” to Baltic words for various pickled foods. For serious, at 33 cents/day, an OED subscription is the coolest thing ever.

  • 03.015 The faggots are reeking,
  • 06.072 and through the reek he could see the goblins
  • 11.011 all the halls within must be filled with his foul reek.’