Both Uses of
forage
in
The Hunger Games
- I pull on trousers, a shirt, tuck my long dark braid up into a cap, and grab my forage bag.†
p. 4.3 *forage = search for and gather -- often food and provisions
- And I come to know Rue, the oldest of six kids, fiercely protective of her siblings, who gives her rations to the younger ones, who forages in the meadows in a district where the Peacekeepers are far less obliging than ours.†
p. 211.7forages = searches for and gathers -- often food and provisions
Definitions:
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(1)
(forage) to search for and gather -- often food and provisions
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely: Forage can imply taking other's food or supplies as when soldiers forage on nearby farms. As a noun, it can reference the items found. Finally, at times (especially in classic literature) it is used in reference plant material eaten by animals.