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Definition forage

Etymology

From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *f?dar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *f?dr? (“fodder, feed, sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *patrom (“fodder”), *pat- (“to feed”), *p?y- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English f?dor, f?þor (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food.

Noun

forage (countable and uncountable, plural forages)

1. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
2. An act or instance of foraging.
3. (obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population

Verb

forage (third-person singular simple present forages, present participle foraging, simple past and past participle foraged)

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.
4. Of an animal, to seek out and eat food.

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