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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

for·age

[fawr-ij, for-] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -aged, -ag·ing.

–noun

1.	food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.

2.	the seeking or obtaining of such food.

3.	the act of searching for provisions of any kind.

a raid.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to wander or go in search of provisions.

6.	to search about; seek; rummage; hunt: He went foraging in the attic for old mementos.

7.	to make a raid.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to collect forage from; strip of supplies; plunder: to forage the countryside.

9.	to supply with forage.

10.	to obtain by foraging.

[Origin: 1275–1325; ME < OF fourrage, deriv. of fuerre fodder (< Gmc)

]

—Related forms

for·ag·er, noun

—Synonyms 1. See feed.

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for·age (fôr'ĭj, fŏr'-) Pronunciation Key
n.

Food for domestic animals; fodder.
The act of looking or searching for food or provisions.

v. for·aged, for·ag·ing, for·ag·es

v. intr.

To wander in search of food or provisions.
To make a raid, as for food: soldiers foraging near an abandoned farm.
To conduct a search; rummage.

v. tr.

To collect forage from; strip of food or supplies: troops who were foraging the countryside.
Informal To obtain by foraging: foraged a snack from the refrigerator.

[Middle English, from Old French fourrage, from forrer, to forage, from feurre, fodder, of Germanic origin; see pā- in Indo-European roots.]

for'ag·er n.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
forage (n.)

c.1315, from O.Fr. forage, from fuerre "fodder, straw," from Frank. *fodr "food" (cf. O.H.G. fuotar, O.E. fodor); see fodder. The verb is first recorded 1417.

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forage
noun
1.	bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle [syn: eatage]
2.	the act of searching for food and provisions [syn: foraging]
verb
1.	collect or look around for (food) [syn: scrounge]
2.	wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods"

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Forage

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.

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Forage

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.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Forage

For"age\, v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. --Pope.

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