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noun
Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An act or instance of foraging.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
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verb
To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
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verb
To rummage.
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verb
Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.
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noun
the act of searching for food and provisions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: foraging
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Broader terms: search, hunt, hunting
noun
bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: eatage, pasture, pasturage, grass
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Broader terms: fodder
verb
wander and feed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: feed, eat
Narrower terms: raven, prey, predate
verb
collect or look around for (food)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: scrounge
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Broader terms: hunt, run, hunt down, track down
Narrower terms: rustle
History
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”).
Across languages
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