Forage

Definition: Forage

Forage

Noun

1. Animal food for browsing or grazing.

2. The act of searching for food and provisions.

Verb

1. Collect or look around for (food).

2. Wander and feed; of animals.

3. Hunt for food or provisions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "forage" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Synonyms: Forage

Clothing

Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino.

Food

Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese.

Provision

Cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed.

Stealing

Plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.

Crosswords: Forage

French (boring, digging, drilling, sinking).

Forage Harvesting (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Swedes, Mangolds, Fodder Roots, Clover, Sainfoin, Forage Kale, Lupines, Vetches, and Similar Forage Products: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Biotechnology and the Improvement of Forage Legumes (Biotechnology in Agriculture Series, 17) (reference)

• Biotechnology in Forage and Turf Grass Improvement (Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 23) (reference)

• Forage Conservation and Feeding (reference)

• Forage Seed Production: Temperate Species (reference)

• Genetic Resources of Mediterranean Pasture and Forage Legumes (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, 33) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Grass And Forage Science (reference)

• Grasslands And Forage Abstracts (reference)

• Hay & Forage Grower (reference)

• Proceedings American Forage And Grassland Council (reference)

• Recommended Lists - Forage Maize (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Minnows that constitute the forage base for larger predators. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Dan Cotter, DC, and Lafayette County farmer inspect the forage for a dairy operation in southwest Wisconsin. Credit: Bob Nichols.

NRCS range conservationist measures available forage in rangeland. Credit: Gary Kramer.

Pasture management for maximum production of forage while using animal waste on pastures. NRCS working with landowners to maximize forage production while using organic waste on the farm. East Louisiana. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Rangeland specialist measure available forage in rangeland in southern New Mexico. Credit: Gary Kramer.

Planting foxtail millet, a summer annual forage with low water needs, helps conserve water for subsequent crops. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Soil scientists Harry Pionke (left) and Ron Schnabel examine a switchgrass stand. Relatively small buffer areas not only can protect nearby streams from agricultural pollutants, but also provide habitat for ground-nesting birds and forage for beef cattle. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Cattle forage on on strip of grass spared by the August 1999 fires, Elko County, Nevada. Credit: Cari Brown.

The 3rd Custer div. on the 7th of Octr. retiring and burning the forage Etc. Somewhere near Mt. Jackson. Credit: Library of Congress.

Collecting forage. Escort skirmishing n. Harrison. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Oman

Other areas grow cereals and forage crops. (references)

Hungary

U.S. exports of vegetable, grass, forage and, in particular, field corn seed have been traditionally strong in this market. (references)

Chile

The government's long-term program to improve pastures for livestock offers the potential for sales of forage and grass seeds. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

Products under these restrictions include cattle, meat, milk and dairy products, indigenous fresh fruit and vegetables, seasonal cut flowers, cereals and forage products, wine and grape juice. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "forage": forage around ♦ Forage cap ♦ forage crop ♦ forage for ♦ forage kale ♦ Forage master ♦ forage tree ♦ green forage. Additional references.

Albanian

ushqej (cherish, feed, Foster, nourish, nurse, prime, Stoke), tagji (fodder, oat), rrëmoj (delve, dig, dive, ferret about, ferret out, Mold, mole, mould, rout, rummage, scavenge, search), plaçkit (depredate, despoil, Harry, hijack, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, pirate, plunder, Raven, ravish, Rob, sack), kërkim (assertion, exploration, inquiry, investigation, look, plea, pursuit, quest, research, rummage, scan, search). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قام بغارة, ‏علف الماشية (fodder), ‏جمع العلف, ‏التماس للعلف, ‏إنتزع المؤن من. (various references)

Bulgarian 

събиране на фураж (foraging), събирам фураж, фуражен, давам фураж. (various references)

Chinese 

草料. (various references)

Czech

slídit (cast about, ferret, ferret about, pry). (various references)

Danish

fourage (fodder, grass, pasture), foderplanter (forage herbs, herbage herbs), foder (fodder, grass, pasture), toerring af foder og korn (grain and seed drying), græs (grass, herb). (various references)

Dutch

weiland (meadow), wei (meadow, serum), voedsel (food, nourishment), grasland (meadow). (various references)

Finnish

rehu (animal feedstuffs, feed, fodder). (various references)

French

fourrage (fodder). (various references)

German

hamstern (hamsters, hoard, hoarding, panic-buy, to forage), futter (casing, chow, chows, chuck, coating, feed, fodder, food, lining, nosh, nourishment, provender, swill). (various references)

Greek 

βοσκή (herbage, pasturage, pasture). (various references)

Hebrew 

מספוא (fodder, hay, pasture, provender), לחפש מזון. (various references)

Hungarian

takarmány (bait, feed, fodder, mess, provender, stover), abrak (feed, fodder). (various references)

Italian

foraggio (chow, chows, fodder, provender). (various references)

Korean 

꼴. (various references)

Manx

scryssey (cancel, cancellation; growl, eliminate, elimination, erase, grin, pare down, rub out, scrap, scrape, scrape away, scraping, scratch, shave, sneer, strike out, wipe out, write off), ronsaghey (beat for game, consult; consultation, debate, examine, explore, frisk, investigate, look into, ransack, rifle, rummage, scrutinize, scrutinizing, search, searching), foddyr (feed, fodder, provender), cur foddyr da. (various references)

Norwegian

fôr (fodder, lining). (various references)

Pig Latin

oragefay.(various references)

Portuguese

forragem (hay, herb, provender, roughage). (various references)

Romanian

furaj (fodder), strânge nutreţ, pustii (desolate, devastate, foray, gut, Harry, havoc, ravage, wear away), nutreţ (fodder, mess, nutriment, pasturage), lua hranã de la, devasta (desolate, devastate, foray, gut, havoc, lay waste, play among havoc, play with havoc, ravage, reave, Rob, rummage, sack, wear away), da nutreţ, cãuta (covet, ferret, fossick, Hunt, look about for, look for, look out, look out for, look up, make a search, nose, quest, search after, search for, seek, seek for, want), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop). (various references)

Russian 

фураж (fodder, green fodder, provender). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tragati za hranom, stočna hrana (cotton cake, feed, green-fodder, pasturage, provender, soilage, stover). (various references)

Spanish

forraje (fodder, provender, roughage). (various references)

Swedish

göra en räd, foder (architrave, calyx, casing, cattlefood, feed, feeding, fodder, lining, provender). (various references)

Thai

การออกหาอาหาร, อาหารสัตว์ (feedstuff, silage), ค้นหา (detect, ferret about, fish, hunt, look, rake over, rake through, seek, sift through). (various references)

Turkish

yiyecek peşinde koşma, yiyecek aramak, yiyecek (aliment, chow, comestibles, eatables, fare, food, grub, keep, nurture, prog, provender, scran, tack, tuck, victual), yem (bait, decoy, draw, fodder, food, lure, prey, provender, silage), yağmalamak (despoil, foray, Harry, loot, maraud, pillage, pirate, pluck, plunder, prey on, prey upon, put to the sack, Raven, reave, sack, spoliate, sweep down on), hücum (access, aggression, assault, attack, bully, charge, dash, incursion, offensive, onrush, onset, raid, rush, scrimmage, sortie, storm, thrust), eşelemek (disinter, dredge up, grub, grub up, root, rout, scratch about), didiklemek (grub, grub up, pick, pick to pieces, tease out), baskın yapmak (bob up, catch, descend, raid, swoop, swoop down, swoop on, take by surprise), baskın (descent, dominant, foray, heavy, incursion, inroad, irruption, overpowering, predominant, preponderant, prepotent, raid, sudden attack, surprise, swoop), araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, fossick, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quarry, quest, rake, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey). (various references)

Ukrainian

фуражувати, фураж (fodder, keep, provender). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tìm tòi sự t� n phá, cuộc đánh phá. (various references)

pabula, pabulum, pasco. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "forage": foraged, forager, foragers, forages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Forage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: farage, faragoe, ferago, firage, firago, florage, Florangel, fodage, fonage, forare, fordge, Forgac, forigen, Forlag, formaggio, forragne, frage, frege, Frige, furage, porage, vorage. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: afore, forge, gofer.

-2 letters: aero, ager, ergo, fare, faro, fear, fora, fore, frae, frag, froe, frog, gear, goer, gore, ogre, rage.

-3 letters: age, ago, are, arf, ear, ego, era, erg, fag, far, fer, foe, fog, for, fro, gae, gar, goa, gor, oaf, oar, ora, ore, rag, ref, reg, roe.

-4 letters: ae, ag, ar, ef.

+1 letter: fagoter, foraged, forager, forages, forgave, fromage.

+2 letters: fagoters, floorage, footgear, foragers, fromages, frontage, frottage, leapfrog.

+3 letters: afterglow, factorage, farragoes, floorages, flowerage, footgears, forestage, forgather, forgeable, fosterage, frontages, frottages, gerfalcon, godfather, leapfrogs, ossifrage, xenograft.

+4 letters: afterglows, factorages, florilegia, flowerages, forbearing, forearming, foredating, foregather, forestages, forgathers, forgivable, fosterages, fourragere, gerfalcons, godfathers, isografted, ossifrages, profligate, refloating, xenografts.