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forage

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.
   • 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, Chapter 8:

     The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.

2. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1, Scene 2:

     And your great-uncles, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground playd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lions whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility.

3. To rummage.
   • 1898, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrecker:

     Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed.

forage (plural forages)

1. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:^[1]

     “The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keepers palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage, which he spread before the knights charger.

2. An act or instance of foraging. […] ”
   • 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 56, number 3, page 304:

     ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars: […]

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