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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forage
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a foraging expedition (=when you search for food)
▪ On our foraging expedition into the woods, we found mushrooms and wild berries.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
food
▪ The murdering sun had dipped below the horizon, and this was the time when she could forage for food.
▪ A light rum and tonic in hand, he abandoned his post for the kitchen to forage for food.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Writers who need a good title have often foraged in Shakespeare or the Bible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A light rum and tonic in hand, he abandoned his post for the kitchen to forage for food.
▪ A troupe of golden-crowned kinglets was foraging close to the ground.
▪ At this time of the year, the goats can forage fairly freely and will cover relatively large areas.
▪ Or send a search engine to forage for the best prices or availability across hundreds of shops simultaneously.
▪ Red and gray squirrels are foraging.
▪ The murdering sun had dipped below the horizon, and this was the time when she could forage for food.
▪ There was fireweed with furry yellow-and-black bumblebees foraging from it, and there were bears and caribou.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It could be worn with the sword belt on the outside; and the either the forage or the field headgear.
▪ Neither reindeer nor caribou have benefited much, since for them lack of forage is the problem.
▪ The Azollablue-green alga combination fixes atmospheric nitrogen and is widely used as fertilizer and as forage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forage

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.

Forage

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.

Forage

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forage

early 14c. (late 13c. as Anglo-Latin foragium) "food for horses and cattle, fodder," from Old French forrage "fodder; foraging; pillaging, looting" (12c., Modern French fourrage), from fuerre "hay, straw, bed of straw; forage, fodder" (Modern French feurre), from Frankish *fodr "food" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *fodram (source of Old High German fuotar, Old English fodor; see fodder). Meaning "a roving in search of provisions" in English is from late 15c. Military forage cap attested by 1827.

forage

early 15c., "to plunder, pillage," from forage (n.) or from Middle French fourrager. Meaning "hunt about for" is from 1768. Related: Foraged; foraging.

Wiktionary
forage

n. 1 fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses. 2 An act or instance of foraging. 3 (context obsolete English) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population vb. 1 To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses. 2 To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes. 3 To rummage.

WordNet
forage
  1. n. animal food for browsing or grazing [syn: eatage, pasture, pasturage, grass]

  2. the act of searching for food and provisions [syn: foraging]

  3. v. collect or look around for (food) [syn: scrounge]

  4. wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods"

Wikipedia
Forage (disambiguation)

Forage may refer to:

  • Forage, plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock
  • Forage (honey bee), bees' food supply consisting of nectar and pollen from blooming plants
Forage

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 to include similar plants cut for fodder and carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage. The term forage fish refers to small schooling fish that are preyed on by larger aquatic animals.

While the term forage has a broad definition, the term forage crop is used to define crops, annual or biennial, which are grown to be utilized by grazing or harvesting as a whole crop.

Forage (honey bee)

For bees, their forage or food supply consists of nectar and pollen from blooming plants within flight range. The forage sources for honey bees are an important consideration for beekeepers. In order to determine where to locate hives for maximum honey production and brood one must consider the off-season. If there are no honey flows the bees may have to be fed. Bees that are used for pollination are usually fed in the holding yards. Forage is also significant for pollination management with other bee species. Nectar contains sugars that are the primary source of energy for the bees' wing muscles and for heat for honey bee colonies for winter. Pollen provides the protein and trace minerals that are mostly fed to the brood in order to replace bees lost in the normal course of life cycle and colony activity.

As a rule of thumb the foraging area around a beehive extends for two miles (3 km), although bees have been observed foraging twice and three times this distance from the hive. Experiments have shown that beehives within 4 miles of a food source will gain weight, but beyond that the energy expended is greater than that gained during the foraging flight. Foraging at extreme distances wears out the wings of individual bees, reduces the life expectancy of foraging bees and therefore the efficiency of the colony. The minimum temperature for active honeybee foraging is approximately 55 °F (13 °C). Full foraging activity is not achieved until the temperature rises to 66 °F (19 °C). There are small differences in the races of the Western honey bees at what temperature they will start foraging.

The main nectar source and main pollen source differ widely with the latitude, region, season and type of vegetation. Bees are able to communicate direction and distance of a food source by means of the round dance, waggle dance and shaking signals.

In addition to nectar and pollen, honey bees may forage for a honeydew source in certain coniferous trees and on oaks. One Queen bee is essential to every hive as the only individual who can lay fertilized eggs necessary to rear workers and new queens and therefore continuation of the species.

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.