'Foray' definitions:

Definition of 'foray'

From: WordNet
noun
A sudden short attack [syn: foray, raid, maraud]
noun
An initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics"
verb
Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]
verb
Briefly enter enemy territory

Definition of 'Foray'

From: GCIDE
  • Foray \For"ay\ (f[o^]r"[asl] or f[-o]*r[=a]"; 277), n. [Another form of forahe. Cf. Forray.] A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Foray'

From: GCIDE
  • Foray \For"ay\, v. t. To pillage; to ravage. [1913 Webster]
  • He might foray our lands. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

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