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Rip Van Winkle
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As they ascended, Rip every now and then heard long, rolling peals, like distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine, or rather cleft, between lofty rocks, toward which their rugged path conducted.†

ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small [v]amphitheater, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the bright evening cloud.†
The strange man with a keg of liquor—the mountain ravine—the wild retreat among the rocks—the woe-begone party at ninepins—the flagon—"Oh!†
At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the amphitheater; but no traces of such opening remained.†
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Definitions:

(1) (ravine)
a deep, narrow, steep-sided gorge or valley -- especially one formed by running water
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In archaic literature, ravined may be used to mean ravenous.