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noun

Forage n.

The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. "He (the lion) from forage will incline to play." "One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine." "Mawhood completed his forage unmolested."

Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.

Forage cap. See under Cap.

Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it.

verb

Forage v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.

Forage v. i. (past & past part. foraged; pres. part. 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."

Foraging ant (Zool.), 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.

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Etymology of 'Forage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forage" Quotes from Famous Books

... beverage, mining (particularly coal) Agriculture: accounts for about 20% of GDP and provides livelihood for about 50% of the population; livestock raising predominates (primarily sheep and goats, but also cattle, camels, and horses); crops - wheat, barley, potatoes, forage ...

— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... said the old man, "and forgive me if I leave you? I am alone in my house to-night, and if you are to eat I must forage for you myself." ...

— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson

... We're alone on a desert island, and we have to find food and shelter, and be as comfortable and as happy as we can. In the story, you have cause to hate me, but you don't, because you're generous. So you forage for game and fruit, and help me to escape. Which means, if you've really forgiven my horridness, that you'll take pity on me and ask me to dine with you before you put me into my ...

— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson

... the cotton-plant contrast with the chaste pure white of the lint in the bursting pods, now so abundantly yielding their wealth; the red ripe berries all over the woods, and the busy squirrels gathering and hoarding these and the richer forest-nuts; the cawing of the crows as they forage upon the ungathered corn, feeding and watching with the consciousness of thieves, and the fat cattle ruminating in the shade, make up a scene of beauty and loveliness not met with in a less fervid clime. The entranced rapture which filled ...

— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks

... that has militated against the condor more than any other one thing; namely, the restriction in its food source. Its forage range formerly included most of the great valleys adjacent to its mountain retreats. But now the valleys are almost entirely devoted to agriculture, and of course far more thickly ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

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