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for⋅ay

[fawr-ey, for-ey]
–noun
1. a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
2. a quick, sudden attack: The defenders made a foray outside the walls.
3. an initial venture: a successful foray into politics.
–verb (used without object)
4. to make a raid; pillage; maraud.
5. to invade or make one's way, as for profit or adventure: foreign industries foraying into U.S. markets.
–verb (used with object)
6. to ravage in search of plunder; pillage.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME forraien, appar. by back formation from forrayour, forreour, forrier < OF forrier, fourrier, equiv. to fo(u)rr(er), deriv. of fuerre provender (see forage ) + -ier -ier 2


for⋅ay⋅er, noun


1. attack, assault, invasion, incursion, sortie.
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foray 
1375, Scottish back-formation of forreyer "raider, forager," from O.Fr. forrier, from forrer "to forage," related to fuerre "fodder" (see forage).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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