'Forage' definitions:
Definition of 'forage'
(from WordNet)
noun
Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle [syn: eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass]
noun
The act of searching for food and provisions [syn: foraging, forage]
verb
Collect or look around for (food) [syn: scrounge, forage]
verb
Wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods"
Definition of 'Forage'
From: GCIDE
- Forage \For"age\ (?; 48), n. [OF. fourage, F. fourrage, fr. forre, fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G. futter. See Fodder food, and cf. Foray.]
- 1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. [1913 Webster]
- He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. --Marshall. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Forage cap. See under Cap.
- Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. --Farrow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Forage'
From: GCIDE
- Forage \For"age\, v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Forage'
From: GCIDE
- Forage \For"age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Foraged; p. pr. & vb. n. Foraging.] To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil. [1913 Webster]
- His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Foraging ant (Zool.), one of several species of ants of the genus Eciton, very abundant in tropical America, remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food.
- Foraging cap, a forage cap.
- Foraging party, a party sent out after forage. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'forage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- barley,
- beat,
- beat the bushes,
- bird seed,
- board,
- bran,
- bread,
- bunker,
- burrow,
- cat food,
- cater,
- chicken feed,
- chop,
- coal,
- comb,
- corn,
- delve,
- depredate,
- despoil,
- dig,
- dine,
- dog food,
- domiciliary visit,
- dragnet,
- eatage,
- ensilage,
- exploration,
- explore,
- feed,
- fill up,
- fleece,
- fodder,
- foray,
- freeboot,
- frisk,
- fuel,
- gas,
- gas up,
- go through,
- grain,
- grass,
- gratify,
- graze,
- gut,
- hay,
- house-search,
- hunt,
- hunting,
- look around,
- look round,
- look through,
- loot,
- maraud,
- mash,
- meal,
- meat,
- mess,
- nose around,
- oats,
- oil,
- pasturage,
- pasture,
- perquisition,
- pet food,
- pillage,
- plunder,
- poke,
- poke around,
- posse,
- prey on,
- probe,
- provender,
- provision,
- pry,
- purvey,
- quest,
- raid,
- ransack,
- ransacking,
- ravage,
- raven,
- ravish,
- regale,
- reive,
- research,
- rifle,
- root,
- rummage,
- sack,
- satisfy,
- scratch,
- scratch feed,
- search,
- search party,
- search through,
- search warrant,
- search-and-destroy operation,
- searching,
- sell,
- silage,
- slops,
- smell around,
- spoil,
- spoliate,
- stalk,
- stalking,
- still hunt,
- straw,
- sustain,
- sweep,
- swill,
- top off,
- turning over,
- victual,
- wheat,
- wine and dine