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?”
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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.