forageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈfo̞ɹɪd͡ʒ]
• (NYC, Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑɹɪd͡ʒ/
• 韻: -ɒɹɪdʒ

名詞

forage (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 forages)

1. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:^[1]

     “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.

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     To invade the corn, and to their cells convey
     The plundered forage of their yellow prey

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

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

   • 1803, John Marshall, The Life of George Washington:

     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

関連する語

• foray

Further reading

• Forage on Wikipedia.
• Forage in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

動詞

forage (三人称単数 現在形 forages, 現在分詞 foraging, 過去形および過去分詞形 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, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     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.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne, “The Cabin of the ‘Flying Scud’”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], OCLC 1085936561, page 218:

     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.

派生語

• forager