foragern.
/ˈfɒrᵻdʒə/, U.S. /ˈfɔrɪdʒər/, /ˈfɑrɪdʒər/ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > harbinger or usher
heraldc1330
forayer1340
forager1377
foregangera1500
usher1548
harbingera1550
avant-courier1603
go-before1633
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 84 Frenesyes & foule yueles forageres of kynde.
1630 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Ashm. 53) (1888) i. viii. 122 Much praisinge love (of peace the harbinger), mild truithes, sterne iustices kind foragere.
2.
a. One of a party sent out to gather forage, etc. for an army. †Also a spoiler, ravager.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > forager
forager1489
outrider1528
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > sacker, raider, or looter > [noun]
reavereOE
forayerc1330
cateran1371
ransackerc1390
depopulatorc1440
rover1481
forager1489
river?a1500
riderc1550
wight-rider1569
predour1577
sacker1589
harrier1596
boot-haler1600
marauder1698
poligar1773
skinner1780
looter1860
raider1861
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xiv. 36 Not trust onely vpon that that his fourragers shall bringe.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxxiii. 39 b/2 If the spanish forangers were stronger, than they wold take theyr forag fro them.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Forager or waster of a countrey, populator.
1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline i. 16 Horse..to gard and defend the foringers.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iv. 173 Certaine forragers and robbers that made sundry incursions into the countrie.
1799 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1834) 7 Apr. I. 27 The foragers are coming in fast well loaded with forage.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. vi. 595 The continual skirmishing with the Prussian foragers.
b. A foraging ant (Eciton).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Eciton (forager)
forager1863
army ant1870
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 47 They [ants] keep a party of foragers constantly on the lookout.]
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. v. 352 One of the foragers, Eciton rapax..hunts in single file through the forest.
3. One who goes foraging for himself. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > forager
forager1621
1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis ii. 45 The Woods wild foragers espy'd.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 20 This Forager on others Wisdom.
1777 W. Mason Eng. Garden (ed. 2) ii. 278 Down so smooth a slope, The fleecy foragers will gladly browse.
1890 Cent. Mag. May 48/1 A nervous restless disposition, which makes them [poultry]..excellent foragers.
4. = forage-cap n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > denoting office or profession > military
Monmouth cap1577
watering cap1746
muff-cap1809
shako1816
chaco1826
forage-cap1827
foraging-cap1830
bearskin1843
field cap1845
kepi1861
busby1870
czako1891
forager1891
Brodrick1905
watch cap1909
gorblimey1919
split-arse cap1931
beret1948
piss-cutter1949
1891 Daily 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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