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Forage
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- 1 Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses. countable, uncountable
"“The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage, which he spread before the knight's charger."
- 2 the act of searching for food and provisions wordnet
- 3 An act or instance of foraging. countable, uncountable
"He [the lion] from forage will incline to play."
- 4 bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle wordnet
- 5 The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 1 To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
"The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas."
- 2 wander and feed wordnet
- 3 To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
"And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility."
- 4 collect or look around for (food) wordnet
- 5 To rummage.
"Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed."
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- 6 Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.
Etymology
From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food.
From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food.
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