• (RP) IPA: /ˈfɒɹɪdʒ/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈfɔɹɪdʒ/
• (New York , Irish English) IPA: /ˈfɑɹɪdʒ/

forage

1. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=ldIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA410&dq=forage ]}

     “The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage, which he spread before the knight's charger.

2. An act or instance of foraging.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

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

   • Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.

   • 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 56, number 3, page 304 ↗:

     ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars: […]

3. (obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population

• French: fourrage
• German: Fourage, Viehfutter, Pferdefutter
• Portuguese: forragem
• Russian: фура́ж
• Spanish: forraje

• French: fourrager
• German: hamstern, fouragieren
• Portuguese: coleta
• Russian: кормле́ние

forage (forages, present participle foraging; past and past participle foraged)

1. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
   • 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, Chapter 8:

     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.

2. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1, Scene 2:

     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.

3. To rummage.
   • 1898, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrecker:

     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.

4. Of an animal, to seek out and eat food.

• Russian: фуражи́ровать

• German: herumsuchen