Forage

Quick meaning: Forage is a noun meaning Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.

Meaning

Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.

More Meanings

1. An act or instance of foraging.
2. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
3. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
4. To rummage.
5. Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.
6. (obsolete) The demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population.

Example Sentences

He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.

[Charles] Mawhood completed his forage unmolested, and returned to Philadelphia.

To invade the corn, and to their cells convey / The plundered forage of their yellow prey

‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars: […]

Word Forms

• forages
• foraging
• foraged

Synonyms for forage

Depending on context, synonyms include pasture, grass, scrounge, foraging, pasturage, eatage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eatage, pasturage, pasture, scrounge, grass, grazing.

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