English
Pronunciation
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Verb
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- To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
#:1841 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 � James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, Chapter 8.
- To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
#:1599 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. � Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1, Scene 2.
- To rummage.
#:1898 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. � Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrecker.
Translations
Chinese: ��, �寻
Dutch: foerageren
French: fourrager, fouiller
German: herumsuchen
Greek: ��ομηθε��ει
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Italian: foraggiare
Japanese: ��糧������������������, (syokuryou wo) asaru�
Russian: ���ажи�ова�� (furazhirovat')
Spanish: forrajear
Noun
en-noun
- Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
#:1819 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. � Walter Scott, Ivanhoe here
Adjective
forage
- Of or pertaining to forage or foraging.
#:1903 As to my dress, I covered my Hussar uniform with a long cloak, and I put a grey forage cap upon my head. � Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Gerard'', Chapter 4.
Translations
French: fourrage m
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Japanese: �糧������������, syokuryou sagashi�
Spanish: forraje m
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