About The Word Forage

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Forage

Forage Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Forage?
[n] the act of searching for food and provisions
[n] animal food for browsing or grazing [v] hunt for food or provisions [v] wander and feed; of animals [v] collect or look around for (food) Synonyms | Synonyms for Forage: eatage | foraging | grass | pasturage | pasture | scrounge Related Terms | Find terms related to Forage: barley | beat | beat the bushes | bird seed | board | bran | bread | bunker | burrow | cat food | cater | chicken feed | chop | coal | comb | corn | delve | depredate | despoil | dig | dine | dog food | domiciliary visit | dragnet | eatage | ensilage | exploration | explore | feed | fill up | fleece | fodder | foray | freeboot | frisk | fuel | gas | gas up | go through | grain | grass | gratify | graze | gut | hay | house-search | hunt | hunting | look around | look round | look through | loot | maraud | mash | meal | meat | mess | nose around | oats | oil | pasturage | pasture | perquisition | pet food | pillage | plunder | poke | poke around | posse | prey on | probe | provender | provision | pry | purvey | quest | raid | ransack | ransacking | ravage | raven | ravish | regale | reive | research | rifle | root | rummage | sack | satisfy | scratch | scratch feed | search | search party | search through | search warrant | search-and-destroy operation | searching | sell | silage | slops | smell around | spoil | spoliate | stalk | stalking | still hunt | straw | sustain | sweep | swill | top off | turning over | victual | wheat | wine and dine See Also | eat | feed | feed | hunt | hunt | hunt | hunt down | hunt down | hunting | predate | prey | provender | raven | run | run | search | track down | track down Forage In Webster's Dictionary \For"age\ (?; 48), n. [OF. fourage, F. fourrage, fr.
forre, fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum,
fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G.
futter. See {Fodder} food, and cf. {Foray}.]
1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
--Shak.
One way a band select from forage drives A herd of
beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. --Milton.
Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. --Marshall.
2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and
cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. --Dryden.
{Forage cap}. See under {Cap}.
{Forage master} (Mil.), a person charged with providing
forage and the means of transporting it. --Farrow.
\For"age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Foraged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foraging}.] To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil. His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. --Shak. {Foraging ant} (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of ants of the genus {Eciton}, very abundant in tropical America, remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food. {Foraging cap}, a forage cap. {Foraging party}, a party sent out after forage. \For"age\, v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. --Pope. |
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