forage
pronunciation
How to pronounce forage in British English:
UK [ˈfɒrɪdʒ]
How to pronounce forage in American English:
US [ˈfɔːrɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- animal food for browsing or grazing
- the act of searching for food and provisions
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- Verb:
- collect or look around for (food)
- wander and feed
Word Origin
- forage
- forage: see food
- forage (n.)
- early 14c. (late 13c. as Anglo-Latin foragium) "food for horses and cattle, fodder," from Old French forrage "fodder; foraging; pillaging, looting" (12c., Modern French fourrage), from fuerre "hay, straw, bed of straw; forage, fodder" (Modern French feurre), from Frankish *fodr "food" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *fodram (source of Old High German fuotar, Old English fodor; see fodder). Meaning "a roving in search of provisions" in English is from late 15c. Military forage cap attested by 1827.
- forage (v.)
- early 15c., "to plunder, pillage," from forage (n.) or from Middle French fourrager. Meaning "hunt about for" is from 1768. Related: Foraged; foraging.
Example
- 1. Their forage and water supplies have diminished , but the cattle must still be fed .
- 2. Feeding bees supplements , rather than relying on their ability to forage in the wild , costs time and money .
- 3. Even pigs and chickens , which lack the digestive machinery to eat grass , don 't need grain . Instead they can subsist on leftovers and whatever they forage .
- 4. This long bill is used to forage and probe for food on the ground .
- 5. Legume forage resources and floristic characteristics in gansu province .