forage

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
2. (countable, uncountable) An act or instance of foraging.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population.

Verb

1. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
2. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
3. To rummage.
4. Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.

Synonyms

fodder

feed

pasture

provender

scrounge

rummage

grass

foraging

eatage

pasturage

hay

honey gathering

food

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feedstuff

mash

search

nourishment

pabulum

range

ravage

raven

stover

dry grass

fodder grass

feed-stuff

search thoroughly

animal foodstuff

gather pollen

meadow

aliment

barley

browse

cadge

chow

collect

crop

explore

fare

feeding

fodder plant

gather

graze

Translations

fourrage

forraje

foraggio

Futter

fourrager

voeder

forragem

pasto

voer

biada

Viehfutter

Weide

foerageren

pâture

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: forage

Cognate with Old High German: fuotar

Cognate with German: Futter

Cognate with Old English: fōdor

Cognate with Dutch: voeder

Cognate with Danish: foder

Cognate with Icelandic: fóðr

In summary

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.