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