FromMiddle Englishforage, fromOld Frenchfourage,forage, a derivative offuerre(“fodder, straw”), fromFrankish*fōdar(“fodder, sheath”), fromProto-Germanic*fōdrą(“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*peh₂-(“to protect, to feed”).
Cognate withOld High Germanfuotar (GermanFutter(“fodder, feed”)),Old Englishfōdor,fōþer(“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”),Dutchvoeder(“forage, food, feed”),Danishfoder(“fodder, feed”),Icelandicfóðr(“fodder, sheath”). More atfodder,food.
forage (countable anduncountable,pluralforages)
- Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
1819 December 20 (indicated as1820),Walter Scott, “[HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=LDIRAAAAYAAJ&PG=PA410&DQ=FORAGE ?]”, inIvanhoe; a Romance. […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […],→OCLC:“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 offorage, which he spread before the knight's charger.
1697,Virgil, “The Fourth Book of theÆneis”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:To invade the corn, and to their cells convey
The plunderedforage of their yellow prey
- An act or instance of foraging.
c.1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene i]:He [the lion] fromforage will incline to play.
1803,John Marshall,The Life of George Washington:Mawhood completed hisforage unmolested.
1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, inThe Knickerbocker, volume56, number 3,page304:‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of hisforages into the well-stored cellars:[…]
- (obsolete) The demand forfodder etc by an army from the local population
fodder for animals
- Armenian:կեր (hy)(ker)
- Bulgarian:фураж m(furaž)
- Catalan:farratge m
- Czech:pícnina (cs) f,píce (cs) f
- Dutch:voeder (nl) n,voer (nl) n,veevoeder (nl) n
- Esperanto:furaĝo
- Finnish:rehu (fi)
- French:fourrage (fr) m
- Galician:forraxe f,ferraña (gl) f,mosqueira f
- Georgian:საკვები(saḳvebi)
- German:Fourage (de) f,Viehfutter (de) n,Pferdefutter (de) n
- Hebrew:מספוא (he) m(mispó)
- Hungarian:takarmány (hu),abrak (hu)
- Japanese:秣 (ja)(まぐさ, magusa)
- Korean:여물(yeomul)
- Macedonian:кр́ма f(kŕma),фу́раж m(fúraž)
- Norman:fouôrrage m(Jersey)
- Portuguese:forragem (pt) f
- Russian:фура́ж (ru) m(furáž),корм (ru) m(korm)
- Spanish:forraje (es) m
- Turkish:yem (tr)
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act or instance of foraging
forage (third-person singular simple presentforages,present participleforaging,simple past and past participleforaged)
- To search for and gatherfood for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
1841,James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 8, inThe Deerslayer:The message said that the party intended to hunt andforage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.
- Torampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
1599 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii]: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.
- Torummage.
1892,Robert Louis Stevenson,Lloyd Osbourne, “The Cabin of the ‘Flying Scud’”, inThe Wrecker, London, Paris:Cassell & Company, […],→OCLC,page218: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 toforage underneath the bed.
- Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.
to search for and gather food for animals
Translations to be checked
Fromforer +-age.
forage m (pluralforages)
- drilling(act of drilling)
Borrowed fromOld Frenchfourage; the first element is cognate tofodder.
- IPA(key): /fɔːˈraːdʒ(ə)/,/fɔˈraːdʒ(ə)/
forage (uncountable)
- forage(especially dry)
Forage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Forage in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)