Raʹvenstone

The stone gibbet of Germany; so called from the ravens which are wont to perch on it. (German rabenstein.)

“Do you think

Iʹll honour you so much as save your throat

From the Ravenstone, by choking you myself?”

Byron: Werner, ii. 2.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.