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noun

Forage n.

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.

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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Etymology of 'Forage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forage" Quotes from Famous Books

... at first glance a good dinner, but it is one from which the average man would go home and forage ...

— Etiquette • Emily Post

... sleep in the cool arbour; after which when the sun was well nigh set we mounted and rode off to Baghdad leaving the servants to follow. However, arrived at the city we found all the shops shut and nowhere could we get grain and forage for the horses, and I sent off two slave boys who had run alongside of us to search for provender. One of them found a jar of bran in the shop of a corn-dealer and paying for the provision brought ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... to subsist exclusively off of the country for forage and provisions for men and the horses, and the supply becoming exhausted our horses were reduced to skeletons and were no longer able ...

— History of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry • R. C. Rankin

... a noble who was working his way up through the ranks, and when I found him he was checking off forage at a barn where some of our men were working. He looked me hard in the eyes, and said in ...

— On Something • H. Belloc

... other duties demanded the presence of the colonists on various portions of the island. Before everything it was necessary to go to the corral, where the flocks of musmons and goats were enclosed, and replenish the provision of forage for those animals. It was accordingly arranged that Ayrton should proceed thither the next day, the 7th of January; and as he was sufficient for the task, to which he was accustomed, Pencroft and the rest were somewhat surprised on hearing ...

— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne

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