Definitions for forage

forage for·age

Spelling: [fawr-ij, for-]
IPA: /ˈfɔr ɪdʒ, ˈfɒr-/

Forage is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in forage (aefgor).

Definitions for forage

noun

  1. food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
  2. the seeking or obtaining of such food.
  3. the act of searching for provisions of any kind.
  4. a raid.

verb (used with object)

  1. to collect forage from; strip of supplies; plunder:
  2. to supply with forage.
  3. to obtain by foraging.

verb (used without object)

  1. to wander or go in search of provisions.
  2. to search about; seek; rummage; hunt:
  3. to make a raid.

Origin of forage

1275-1325; Middle English Old French fourrage, derivative of fuerre fodder (from Germanic)

Examples for forage

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

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

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.

They go to the grocery store dumpster to forage for food, find potatoes, butter, and celery.

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

They raise cattle on the grassland, and sow the other half in wheat and forage for the herd.

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

Make him forage, dig it out of the ice, catch the occasional live trout.

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

Word Value for forage
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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