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forager|ˈfɒrɪdʒə(r)|
Forms: α. 4–7 forager(e, 5–6 fourrager, (6 forageour, forragiour, foriger), 6–7 forrager, 6– forager. β. 6 foranger, -enger, -inger.
[ad. OF. forragier, f. forrage forage n.; also a. OF. fourrageour, agent-n. f. fourragier forage v. With the βforms cf. messenger, passenger.]
†1. A harbinger, messenger. Obs. Cf. forayer 2.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 84 Frenesyes & foule yueles forageres of kynde. 1616J. Lane Sqr.'s T. (1888) 122 note, Much praisinge love (of peace the harbinger), mild truithes, sterne iustices kind foragere.
2. One of a party sent out to gather forage, etc. for an army. † Also a spoiler, ravager.
1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. xiv. 36 Not trust onely vpon that that his fourragers shall bringe. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxxiii. 39 b/2 If the spanish forangers were stronger, than they wold take theyr forag fro them. 1552Huloet, Forager or waster of a countrey, populator. 1581Styward Mart. Discipl. i. 16 Horse..to gard and defend the foringers. 1624Heywood Gunaik. iv. 173 Certaine forragers and robbers that made sundry incursions into the countrie. 1799Wellington 7 Apr. in Gurw. Desp. I. 27 The foragers are coming in fast well loaded with forage. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. X. xxi. vi. 119 The continual skirmishing with the Prussian foragers.
b. A foraging ant (Eciton).
[1834Medwin Angler in Wales II. 47 They [ants] keep a party of foragers constantly on the lookout. ]1863Bates Nat. Amazon II. v. 352 One of the foragers, Eciton rapax..hunts in single file through the forest.
3. One who goes foraging for himself. Also fig.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ii. (1626) 34 The Wood's wild foragers espy'd. 1742Young Nt. Th. v. 253 This forager on others wisdom. 1777Mason Eng. Garden ii. 278 Down so smooth a slope, The fleecy foragers will gladly browse. 1890Century Mag. May 48/1 A nervous restless disposition, which makes them [poultry]..excellent foragers.
4. = forage-cap.
1891Daily News 14 Feb. 3/6 It is expected that the new folding cap..will be shortly condemned in favour of the all⁓round forager, which it was intended to supersede. |