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One looking for something for a long time by river
Answer for the clue "One looking for something for a long time by river ", 7 letters:
forager
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Word definitions for forager in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forager \For"a*ger\, n. One who forages.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An animal or person who forages
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "a plunderer," from Old French foragier , from forrage "fodder; pillaging" (see forage (n.)). From early 15c. in English as "one who gathers food for horses and cattle."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A forager is one who forages, i. e., looks for forage . Forager may refer to: A hunter-gatherer Non-timber forest products (general discussion) Forager (comics) , a fictional superhero published by DC Comics Foraging theory, a branch of behavioral ecology ...
Usage examples of forager.
Then, after confirming that the body detail had finished its work and gone to join the rest of the foragers, they went down to the fieldstone pillars marking the entrance to Gaiten Academy.
Foragers were such meticulous engineers that there was no discernible change in pressure or sound as the hatch closed.
They would people her hive with beauty and splendor, brighten it with all the ferocious passion she once had felt, but that first forager would live forever in a comic epic of its own, a hilarious saga she would be singing to delight its future siblings, even after the certain tragicomic climax, when one of them would surely snap it up.
They were clever, efficient foragers, and where they passed, they laid waste.
Gunny Readyknob and the other Foragers stressed that Alacrity and Floyt were obligated to let the Sockwallets know to whom they owed revenge.
Their difficulty with multiple forms is what leads the foragers into somewhat awkward terminology.
We hold the Samnites until our foragers return to fall on their rear like the Romans they are!
Laughing at the imagined antics of the gnats in the comic interludes, she tried the ring of the old heroic meters and began searching out metaphors and fit similes to celebrate the courage and the triumph of her first-hatched forager.
She met the laggard gnats again, and watched her heroic forager giving his tiny life to serve the hive.
It was big enough to hold her hive, far enough from the ugly buzzing of the midges, rich enough to feed her until her first foragers began to emerge.
From the high Seat, the Spokesman said: "Honath the Purse-maker, Alaskon the Navigator, Charl the Reader, Seth the Needlesmith, Mathild the Forager, you are called to an swer to justice.
We followed a crestline, and had broad vantage of the far-flung multitude of Foragers running confluently with us.
He soon contrived to lessen it, by cutting off their advanced parties, their scouts or foragers, and striking at their detachments in detail.
Smart enough to hide out in that old fallout shelter my father built, too, and get our horses into the woods when the foragers from Salem came by.
Our little world heaved as the Forager flexed her abdomen for leverage and counter-thrust.