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forage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈfɑɹɪd͡ʒ/ (Ireland, New-York-City, Philadelphia)
• [ˈfo̞ɹɪd͡ʒ] (General-American)
• /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food. Unrelated to modern French forage (“drilling”), whose first element is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
   • To invade the corn, and to their cells convey / The plundered forage of their yellow prey 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
   • 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 keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage, which he spread before the knight's charger. 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
2. (countable, uncountable) An act or instance of foraging.
   • [Charles] Mawhood completed his forage unmolested, and returned to Philadelphia. 1805, John Marshall, chapter VIII, in The Life of George Washington, […], volume III, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] C. P. Wayne, →OCLC, page 439:
   • He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
   • ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars: […] 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 56, number 3, page 304:
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population.

Forms

Deriveds

foragemaster · forage cap · hyperforage · forage radish

Relateds

foray

Translations (42)

ca farratge (fodder for animals) · pt coleta (act or instance of foraging) · cs pícnina (fodder for animals) · mk фу́раж (fodder for animals) · de Viehfutter (fodder for animals) · ja 秣 (fodder for animals) · gl mosqueira (fodder for animals) · fi ruokinta (act or instance of foraging) · ko 여물 (fodder for animals) · hy կեր (fodder for animals) · tr yem (fodder for animals) · mk кр́ма (fodder for animals) · gl ferraña (fodder for animals) · fr fourrage (fodder for animals) · fi pengonta (act or instance of foraging) · pt forrageamento (act or instance of foraging) · hu abrak (fodder for animals) · eo furaĝo (fodder for animals) · hu takarmány (fodder for animals) · nl voer (fodder for animals) · ru корм (fodder for animals) · cs krmivo (fodder for animals) · cs píce (fodder for animals) · pt forragem (fodder for animals) · nl veevoeder (fodder for animals) · de Pferdefutter (fodder for animals) · gl forraxe (fodder for animals) · sl krma (fodder for animals) · nrf fouôrrage (fodder for animals) · ru кормле́ние (act or instance of foraging) · bg фураж (fodder for animals) · fi rehu (fodder for animals) · de Fourage (fodder for animals) · es forrajeo (act or instance of foraging) · he מספוא (fodder for animals) · nl voeder (fodder for animals) · nl foerage (act or instance of foraging) · ru фура́ж (fodder for animals) · he אביסה (act or instance of foraging) · fi ruoanhankinta (act or instance of foraging) · es forraje (fodder for animals) · ka საკვები (fodder for animals)

forage en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈfɑɹɪd͡ʒ/ (Ireland, New-York-City, Philadelphia)
• [ˈfo̞ɹɪd͡ʒ] (General-American)
• /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food. Unrelated to modern French forage (“drilling”), whose first element is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”).

Meanings

1. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
   • 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. 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 8, in The Deerslayer:
2. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
   • And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility. 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
3. To rummage.
   • 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. 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “The Cabin of the ‘Flying Scud’”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 218:
4. Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.

Forms

Deriveds

forageable · foragement · forager · unforaged

Translations (24)

fr fourrager (to rampage through) · hu gyűjtöget (to search for and gather food for animals) · cs hledat potravu (to search for and gather food for animals) · la pābulor (to search for and gather food for animals) · fi penkoa (to rummage) · pt forragear (to search for and gather food for animals) · fi laiduntaa (to search for and gather food for animals) · fr fourrager (to search for and gather food for animals) · mi paraketu (to rummage) · la frūmentor (to search for and gather food for animals) · ru фуражи́ровать (to search for and gather food for animals) · de fouragieren (to search for and gather food for animals) · bg събирам фураж (to search for and gather food for animals) · es forrajear (to search for and gather food for animals) · fr fourrager (to rummage) · cs pídit se (to search for and gather food for animals) · fr fouiller (to rummage) · fi rypeä (to rampage through) · de herumsuchen (to rummage) · nl foerageren (to search for and gather food for animals) · mi toro kai (to search for and gather food for animals) · ja 飼料さがし (to search for and gather food for animals) · fi riehua (to rampage through) · cs shánět (to search for and gather food for animals)