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Forage   /fˈɔrɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Forage  n.  
1.
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."
2.
Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
Forage cap. See under Cap.
Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it.



verb
Forage  v. t.  To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.



Forage  v. i.  (past & past part. foraged; pres. part. 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."
Foraging ant (Zool.), 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.






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"Forage" Quotes from Famous Books



... afternoon, in considerable doubt whether I had not mistaken my way, with the probability, if that were the case, of having to camp for the night in the open. My horse would not suffer, for there was forage in abundance, and water was not hard to find thus early in the summer; but it was annoying for myself, for I had but a scrap of food and no blankets. The road, well traveled at first, that I had been following for two hours past, had for some distance been ...
— The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions • J. Smeaton Chase

... was too high and too small for an assault. "Notwithstanding this," says Rapin, "the firing continued very brisk on both sides; but the besiegers having lost Mr. Neilson, their best gunner, and the cavalry suffering very much for want of forage; and at the same time it being reported that Sarsfield was advancing with fifteen thousand men to relieve the place, Douglas held a council of war, wherein it was thought fit to raise the siege, which he accordingly did ...
— The Huguenots in France • Samuel Smiles

... fluid : fluajo. flutter : flugeti, flirti. fly : musxo; flugi. fog : nebulo. fold : fald'i, -o. follow : sekvi. fondle : dorloti, karesi. food : nutrajxo. fool : malsagxulo. foot : piedo; futo. "-man," lakeo. "-path," trotuaro, piedvojeto. forage : furagxo. forehead : frunto. foreign : ali', ekster'-landa, fremda. forest : arbarego. forge : forgxi. forget : forgesi. "-me-not", miozoto. forgive : pardoni. formidable : timeginda. formulate : formuli. fortress : fortikajxo. fortunate ...
— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer

... that Man was destined to emerge. Among all the mammal predecessors of Man, the male is an imposing and important figure in the early days of courtship, but after conception has once been secured the mother plays the chief part in the racial life. The male must be content to forage abroad and stand on guard when at home in the ante-chamber of the family. When she has once been impregnated the female animal angrily rejects the caresses she had welcomed so coquettishly before, and even in Man the place of the father at the birth ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... for crops that are replanted after each harvest like wheat, maize, and rice. Permanent crops—land cultivated for crops that are not replanted after each harvest like citrus, coffee, and rubber. Permanent pastures—land permanently used for herbaceous forage crops. Forests and woodland—land under dense or open stands of trees. Other—any land type not specifically mentioned above, such as urban areas, ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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