forager

Variant of forage

noun

  1. food for domestic animals; fodder
  2. a search for food or provisions

Origin: ME < OFr fourage < forre, fuerre, fodder < Frank *fodr, food, akin to OE fodor, fodder

intransitive verb foraged, foraging

  1. to search for food or provisions
  2. to search for what one needs or wants

Origin: Fr fourrager < the n.

transitive verb

    1. to get or take food or provisions from
    2. Now Rare to ravage; plunder
  1. to provide with forage; feed
  2. to get by foraging

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