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forage
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Word definitions for forage in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forage \For"age\, v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. --Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "to plunder, pillage," from forage (n.) or from Middle French fourrager . Meaning "hunt about for" is from 1768. Related: Foraged ; foraging .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Forage is plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock . Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture , crop residue , or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely ...
Usage examples of forage.
Humans foraged upon the earth for their sustenance and the lore of the earth was their code of adaptation to that life.
Some of it could be produced in the aeroponics bay, but the majority had to be foraged from the surfaces of alien planets.
The British agriculturist thinks that meadow hay is the natural forage for horses and cattle, and for winter turnips are the standby.
Startled, the deer sprang away on slender legs and Alec set off to see what he could forage.
Sometimes the wolves would slink into the Lesser Town and attack the almsfolk foraging for scraps in the middens, and sometimes an almsman would be discovered dead in the snow, half naked and frozen stiff, still clutching his staff, looking like a statue toppled from its pedestal.
Governments resorted to the exercise of angary and expropriation to provide for troops, but it amounted to foraging and the people regarded it as such.
Yet it was unfunny to Bink, for it meant he was still dependent on her--until he finished what she had prepared and foraged for himself.
The budgie twittered in annoyance and flew several feet before landing on a bare knee to continue its foraging.
By day, in his deer shape, Brother Hart would go out and forage on green grass and budlings while his sister remained at home.
And when the evenings grew cool, there were the books that Mr Cupples foraged for in Glamerton, seeming to find them by the scent.
Yet, although the Greeks indeed lent their altars to the crusaders for mass, they purged them afterwards, as if they had been profaned Although the Franks had been promised markets for forage, they were obliged, in order to buy necessities, to exchange their silver oboles and their demers, weight by weight, for large bronze coins struck with effigies of the King of Kings, but having no great purchasing value.
A couple of dowitchers already awake, foraging along the edge of the water.
How were they going to find food and forage, and, more important, enough drinkable water for themselves, a wolf, and two horses while crossing a frozen expanse of glacial ice?
Right along the outbuildings extended a large dunghill, from which manure liquid oozed, while amidst fowls and turkeys, five or six peacocks, a luxury in Chauchois farmyards, were foraging on the top of it.
Mutant Flas to the Foraging Unit, and notify them that he will essay the egg harvesting, snird division.