forage

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forage /ˈfɒrɪdʒ/

▶verb search widely for food or provisions.

■ obtain (food) by searching.

▶noun

• 1 food for horses and cattle.

• 2 an act of foraging.

– derivatives
forager noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. fourrage (n.), fourrager (v.), from fuerre ‘straw’, of Gmc origin and rel. to fodder.