forage

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I would deplete the government--forage, as it were, on the enemy--thereby to fatten my purse.

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  1. noun Food for domestic animals; fodder.
  2. noun The act of looking or searching for food or provisions.
  3. intransitive verb To wander in search of food or provisions.

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fodder ·  firewood ·  victuals ·  oat ·  pasturage ·  necessaries ·  foodstuff ·  hay ·  alfalfa ·  ration ·  munitions ·  nourishment

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forage:   foraging ·  forages
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  1. Middle English, from Old French fourrage, from forrer, to forage, from feurre, fodder, of Germanic origin; see pā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, pillage, French fourrage (Provencal fouratge = Spanish forraje = Portuguese forragem = Italian foraggio = Middle Latin foragium, fodragium, from F.), forage, from Old French forrer, forage, from forre, fuerre, French feurre, fodder, straw, from Middle Latin fodrum, from Low German voder = Swedish Danish foder = Anglo-Saxon fōdor = English fodder, etc.: see fodder. Cf. foray, a doublet of forage.
  2. = French fourrager = Provencal fourrejar, fourregiar = Spanish forrajear = Portuguese forragear = Italian foraggiare; from the noun. Cf. foray, v.
 

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