The meaning of Forage

noun

An item of food.

Usage examples:

A fridge groaning with comestibles

adjective

Edible.

Usage examples:

Sugar, coffee, and sundry other comestible requisites

noun

Things that are for eating

noun

The action of exploring an unfamiliar area.

Usage examples:

Space exploration

verb

Give food to.

Usage examples:

Did you remember to feed the cat?

noun

An act of giving food, especially to animals or a baby, or of having food given to one.

Usage examples:

The baby's morning feed

verb

Make a payment to (someone) in return for services.

noun

Food, especially dried hay or straw, for cattle and other livestock.

Usage examples:

The lower level is used to house livestock, fodder, food, and firewood, while the upper story holds…

verb

Give fodder to (cattle or other livestock).

Usage examples:

The animals need foddering

noun

Food given to cows, horses, and other farm animals

Usage examples:

Fig. the charges of corruption in the state house are fodder for (= have encouraged) late-evening j…

noun

Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.

Usage examples:

We need food and water

noun

Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal

noun

Something that can be taken in by an animal and used to keep it alive and allow it to grow or develop, or such things considered as a whole

Usage examples:

[ u ] baby/cat food, [ c ] there were a lot of frozen foods in the refrigerator., [ u ] he has had …

noun

A substance suitable for consumption as food.

Usage examples:

The people depend on sago starch as a basic foodstuff

noun

Any substance used as food

noun

A substance that is used as food or to make food

Usage examples:

Straw is a valuable by-product for farmers as an animal bedding and foodstuff., basic/essential foo…

noun

Grass that has been mown and dried for use as fodder.

Usage examples:

Here we plant a mixture of alfalfa and timothy, or alfalfa and orchard grass, as hay for horses or …

verb

(of grass) dry while standing.

Usage examples:

The grass had all hayed off and gone to seed

noun

A country dance with interweaving steps similar to a reel.

Usage examples:

He danced the hays round two elbow chairs.

noun

Herbaceous vegetation.

Usage examples:

After rain, tall herbage invariably collapses on to the paths

verb

Pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food.

Usage examples:

In the autumn they hunted deer

noun

An act of hunting wild animals or game.

Usage examples:

A bear-hunt

verb

Direct one's gaze toward someone or something or in a specified direction.

Usage examples:

People were looking at him

noun

An act of directing one's gaze in order to see someone or something.

Usage examples:

Let me get a closer look

exclamation

Used to call attention to what one is going to say.

Usage examples:

‘look, this is ridiculous.’

noun

Land used for pasture.

Usage examples:

Its rolling flood plain and adjoining hills offered rich pasturage

noun

A blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body.

Usage examples:

The surgeon passes the probe over the surgical site again and excises more specimen if elevated rad…

verb

Physically explore or examine (something) with the hands or an instrument.

Usage examples:

Hands probed his body from top to bottom

verb

To search into or examine something

Usage examples:

[ i ] investigators are probing into new evidence in the case., [ t ] using a special instrument, t…

noun

Animal fodder.

Usage examples:

To raise the prices of provender for cattle, importation has been severely curtailed

noun

A long or arduous search for something.

Usage examples:

The quest for a reliable vaccine has intensified

verb

Search for something.

Usage examples:

He was a real scientist, questing after truth

noun

A long search for something that is difficult to find

Usage examples:

A quest for the meaning of life

verb

Search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste.

Usage examples:

People sell junk scavenged from the garbage

verb

Clean refuse from

verb

To search for and collect unwanted food or objects, or of animals or birds to feed on decaying flesh

Usage examples:

[ t ] we scavenged a table and chairs someone had thrown out., [ i ] the crows scavenged on the dea…

noun

A soldier or other person sent out ahead of a main force so as to gather information about the enemy's position, strength, or movements.

Usage examples:

Forward scouts reported that the enemy were massing at two points ahead

verb

Make a search for someone or something in various places.

Usage examples:

I was sent to scout around for a place to park the camper

verb

Reject (a proposal or idea) with scorn.

Usage examples:

He scouts the claim that the aristocrats cared much for the art treasures their ancestors had bought

verb

Try to find something by looking or otherwise seeking carefully and thoroughly.

Usage examples:

I searched among the rocks, but there was nothing

noun

An act of searching for someone or something.

Usage examples:

The police carried out a thorough search of the premises

verb

Look or seek

noun

Grass or other green fodder compacted and stored in airtight conditions, typically in a silo, without first being dried, and used as animal feed in the winter.

Usage examples:

When the attraction closes for the winter, the maize will be harvested for silage to feed tom's jer…

verb

Preserve (grass and other green fodder) as silage.

Usage examples:

Fields of grass and clover that had recently been silaged

noun

Grass or other green plants that are cut and stored, without being dried first, to feed cattle in winter

noun

Dried stalks of grain, used especially as fodder or as material for thatching, packing, or weaving.

Usage examples:

A straw hat

noun

The dried yellow stems of crops such as wheat, used for animals or for weaving

Usage examples:

Straw hats/baskets, the horse had a warm bed of fresh straw.