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forage
CEFRC1
/ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
verb · noun
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In plain English
- 01
verb
To search widely for food or useful supplies.
- 02
verb
Extra detailAn act or instance of foraging.
Examples
Forage crops like clover and alfalfa could be planted.
Look, today was 'sea harvest' so let's go forage for edible plants tomorrow!
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
Also pronounced
- /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningsThe demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population.
To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
noun
Extra meaningFodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
More examples
In contextFarmers mow the grass to forage.
To invade the corn, and to their cells convey / The plundered forage of their yellow prey
He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
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Origin
verb
From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food. Unrelated to modern French forage (“drilling”), whose first element is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”).