forage

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.

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

2. isim An act or instance of foraging.

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

3. isim The demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population.
4. fiil To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.

   “The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.”

5. fiil To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.

   “And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility.”

6. fiil To rummage.

   “Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed.”

7. fiil Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.