Forage /(?; 48)/
For·age
Forage
n.
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The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.
Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
- Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
Phrases & Compounds
- Forage cap
- See under Cap.
- Forage master
- a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it.
Forage
v. i.
imp. & p. p. Foraged; p. pr. & vb. n. Foraging
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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.
Phrases & Compounds
- Foraging ant
- 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
v. t.
- To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.