noun
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Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
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An act or instance of foraging.
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The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population
verb
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To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
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To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
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To rummage.
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(of an animal) To seek out and eat food.
Examples of forage in a Sentence
Water and forage have to be carried for them on camels.
Local land may or may not be okay to forage on.
Oats, barley and millet are largely grown for forage.
She will need regular shoeing and lots of forage available.
Alfalfa selected for forage quality (including reduced lignin) had reduced vigor but was not expected to affect levels of disease resistance.
Since dormice are strictly nocturnal and usually forage in the tree canopy, the chance of coming across any is extremely unlikely.
Italian ryegrass is one of the most important forage grasses in temperate regions.
It is a striking parkland breed with the ability to forage in rough scrubland.
Owing to its endurance of thirst the long desert journeys which separate the populous centres are made practicable, and in the spring months, when green forage is plentiful in the desert, the Bedouins pitch their camps for long periods far from any water, and not only men but horses subsist on camel's milk.
Wild, salt and prairie grasses make up the bulk of the forage acreage, but the cultivated crops - especially millet and Hungarian grasses and alfalfa - are more important.
Then it starts to follow the dances of foragers and to go out and forage for nectar and pollen itself.
A forage harvester can be used on a large site, or a mower with grass box on a small site.
Apparently they left their bearskins at home when on campaign and wore shakos and forage caps like the line infantry.
The are setting up plans to forage for food.
A hat known as the "forage cap" was issued for soldiers to wear during off-battle duties.
The type of hat worn was known as a forage hat.
Some are mainly arboreal, others forage on the ground and otter civets are equipped for an aquatic existence.
This means that it can forage on flowers that have deep corollas that would keep out other bees.
On a more general note, he says there are three clear priorities for livestock farmers seeking to improve the management of forage crops.
Pea Forage Yield Forage yields of peas increased significantly with increased sowing density in all but the late pea harvest in 1999.
They have highly dextrous front paws and will forage at night for food, such as fruit, nuts, small rodents and corn.
What about your pet's natural instincts to burrow, forage or fly?
But planting forage legumes instead has the potential to give a major boost to productivity.
The forage legumes, key to producing soil fertility, are particularly well utilized by the cattle.
Wheat, oilseed rape and potatoes are the main arable crops, alongside forage maize frown for the 180 strong dairy herd.
If you are too strict, your children will forage for themselves and supplement the food you offer.
Forage crops are little grown, though soil conditions are `.
Chimps spend most of their time in trees, but they do forage on land.
Learn how to identify wild berries in Michigan and forage for natural sources of fruits.
The experts at this company will help you assess your needs and make recommendations on forage mixtures for your livestock.
For example, if you grab "Joe", we'll say, and place him near the berry bushes, he may start to learn how to forage and gather food.
Before you forage for cooking utensils in your kitchen cabinets, consider your choices.
The forage hat, also known as a kepi, was worn for fatigue duty, while other hats were designed to be worn for dress.
Dark blue forage hat (kepi) - The forage cap worn by most Union soldiers was made from wool broadcloth.
Washington peas are raised for forage.
The value of the poultry and egg product of 1899 was $1,824,399, which was more than twice that of the cereals and nearly one-third of that of the hay and forage.
Only 32.9% of the state's land area was in that year included in farms, only 37.9% of this farm land was improved, and only 16.3% of the improved land was in crops other than hay and forage.
The commerce of Boulogne consists chiefly in the importation of jute, wool, woven goods of silk and wool, skins, threads, coal, timber, and iron and steel, and the exportation of wine, woven goods, table fruit, potatoes and other vegetables, skins, motor-cars, forage and cement.
The census of 1900 showed that not less than two-fifths of the total net income came from live stock or from hay, grain and forage on farms representing together 96% of the farm-value of the state - live stock being a trifle more important; dairying was similarly predominant for 1.6%, and beet-sugar for ' 9.1%.
All Scottish regiments had a tartan band around their forage cap (Parsons, 1995 ).
Provide 24 hour access to fresh high quality forage of all the types cows are going to receive in early lactation.
Among the land plants may be noted the blue anemone; the ranunculus along the road-sides, with a strong perfume of violets; the Malta heath, which flowers at all seasons; Cynomorium coccineum, the curious " Malta fungus," formerly so valued for medicinal purposes that a guard was set for its preservation under the rule of the Knights; the pheasant's-eye; three species of mallow and geranium; Oxalis cernua, a very troublesome imported weed; Lotus edulis; Scorpiurus subvillosa, wild and cultivated as forage; two species of the horseshoe-vetch; the opium poppy; the yellow and claret-coloured poppy; wild rose; Cartaegus azarolus, of which the fruit is delicious preserved; the ice-plant; squirting cucumber; many species of Umbelliferae; Labiatae, to which the spicy flavour of the honey (equal to that of Mt Hymettus) is ascribed; snapdragons; broom-rape; glass-wort; Salsola soda, which produces when burnt a considerable amount of alkali; there are fifteen species of orchids; the gladiolus and iris are also found; Urginia scilla, the medicinal squill, abounds with its large bulbous roots near the sea; seventeen species of sedges and seventy-seven grasses have been recorded.
There, they forage for food and make a home for themselves.
When cattle, sheep, or other livestock forage through areas contaminated with cat feces, these animals become carriers of the disease.
They are often cut whilst still tender, dried and used as forage being known as oat hay (67,742,000 bundles of about 52 lb each were produced in 1904).
The greater number of horses in the country should have green forage given them during summer, when the work they do will permit of it, as it is their natural food, and they thrive better on it than on any dry food.
Grasses are perhaps the most noteworthy vegetable forms. Nebraska claims a greater variety of native hay and forage species than grow in any other state of the Union.
Of the total 200 species 150 (130 indigenous) are valuable for forage, 34 (20 indigenous) are classed economically as weeds, 10 are non-indigenous cereals and 6 are ornamental.
The principal exports are sugar, coal, cereals, wool, forage, cement, chalk, phosphates, iron and steel, tools and metal-goods, thread and vegetables.
The plain of Toulouse, which with the rest of south-western France produces good draught oxen, the Parisian basin, the plains of the north to the east of the maritime region, the lower valley of the Rhflne and tile Bresse, where there is little or no natural pasturage, and forage is grown from seed.