forage

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Synonyms for forage

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Word Origin & History

early 14c. (late 13c. as Anglo-Latin foragium), from Old French forrage "fodder, foraging, pillaging, looting" (12c., Modern French fourrage), from fuerre "hay, straw, forage, fodder" (Modern French feurre) "fodder, straw," from Frankish *fodr "food" or a similar Germanic source (cf. Old High German fuotar, Old English fodor); see fodder). Military forage cap attested by 1827.

Example Sentences for forage

Forage for our horses is also abundant in all the neighboring plantations.

It was a unique experience for cavalrymen and they had not yet learned how to forage.

It is not so much the getting the forage as the amount of accounting that is involved.

Torch had been put to the camp; all the Federal tents and forage and stores were burning.

His eyes made just a glint of blue light below the forage cap.

The expeditions after forage brought on what was called the Grass Fight.

At the bottom are six sacks of corn, for it may be that forage will run short.

"Draw a good supply of forage for them from the magazines," De la Noue said.

In the United States it is used as a forage plant and as a soil-improver.

The force then retired, bringing in the baggage animals, loaded with forage.

forage

Synonyms for forage

Antonyms for forage

comb

feed

fodder

graze

grazed

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Synonyms for forage

Antonyms for forage

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