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FORAGE , See also: food for cattle or horses, chiefly the provender collected for the food of the horses of an army
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In early usage the word was confined to the dried forage as opposed to grass
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From this word comes " foray," an expedition in See also: search of " forage," and hence a pillaging expedition, a- See also: raid
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The word " forage," directly derived from the Fr. fourrage, comes from a See also: common Teutonic origin, and appears in " See also: fodder," food for cattle
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The ultimate Indo-See also: European See also: root, pat, cf
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