Forage
['fɒrɪdʒ] or ['fɔrɪdʒ]
Definition
(verb.) wander and feed; 'The animals forage in the woods'.
Edited by Augustus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
(n.) Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. t.) To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
Editor: Wallace
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Food (for horses and cattle).
v. n. Wander in search of forage.
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Definition
n. fodder or food for horses and cattle: provisions: the act of foraging.—v.i. to go about and forcibly carry off food for horses and cattle as soldiers.—v.t. to plunder.—ns. For′age-cap the undress cap worn by infantry soldiers; For′ager.
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Examples
- Lee intrenched himself at Amelia Court House, and also his advance north of Jetersville, and sent his troops out to collect forage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- From Millen to Savannah the country is sandy and poor, and affords but very little forage other than rice straw, which was then growing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When its herds and flocks have consumed the forage of one part of the country, it removes to another, and from that to a third. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It occupied much of the road in marching, and taxed the trains in bringing up forage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Third, his absence would save the trains drawing his forage and other supplies from Fredericksburg, which had now become our base. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The country was rich and full of supplies of both food and forage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For the conveniences of forage, the teams for supplying the army were kept at Harper's Ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The man was dressed like a traveller, in a foraging cap with fur about it, and a heap of cloak. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A genteel foraging party besieged Shirley in her castle, and compelled her to surrender at discretion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They went to the river to break the ice, and draw water: they assembled on foraging expeditions, or axe in hand felled the trees for fuel. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The castle and town of Versailles afforded our numbers ample accommodation, and foraging parties took it by turns to supply our wants. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He, therefore, foraged around the best he could until we reached Grand Gulf. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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