forage

• n. 飼料；飼料；探索
• vi. 飼料を探す；探索する

原語のゲルマン語 *fodram, food, forage が語源で、food, fodder と同じ意味である。

forage

forage: see food

forage (n.)

early 14c. (late 13c. as Anglo-Latin foragium) "food for horses and cattle, fodder," from Old French forrage "fodder; foraging; pillaging, looting" (12c., Modern French fourrage), from fuerre "hay, straw, bed of straw; forage, fodder" (Modern French feurre), from Frankish *fodr "food" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *fodram (source of Old High German fuotar, Old English fodor; see fodder). Meaning "a roving in search of provisions" in English is from late 15c. Military forage cap attested by 1827.

forage (v.)

early 15c., "to plunder, pillage," from forage (n.) or from Middle French fourrager. Meaning "hunt about for" is from 1768. Related: Foraged; foraging.

1. They were forced to forage for clothing and fuel.

彼らは服と燃料を探さなければならなかった。

2.Now the nutritive value of the forage is reduced.

このとき牧草の栄養価も低下した。

3.The Hodotermitidae are a semi-desert species known as forage bants.

草シロアリ科は、一般的に草アリと呼ばれ、半砂漠種である。

4.Cows and sheep depends forage to feed.

牛と羊は草で飼育されている。

5.The men have been turned loose in the fields to forage like goats under the guns.

これらの人々は解散され、銃口の下でヤギのように畑の中で食べられるものを探している。