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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FORAGE ,

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food for

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CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle or horses, chiefly the provender collected for the food of the horses of an

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army . In

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early usage the word was confined to the dried forage as opposed to grass . From this word comes " foray," an expedition in

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SEARCH, or VISIT AND SEARCH

search of " forage," and hence a pillaging expedition, a-

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RAID

raid . The word " forage," directly derived from the Fr. fourrage, comes from a

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COMMON

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Teutonic origin, and appears in "

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FODDER

fodder," food for cattle . The ultimate Indo-

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EUROPEAN

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root, pat, cf .

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