Both Uses
forage
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Lee Surrenders to Grant
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- They have been living for the last few days principally upon parched corn, and we are badly in need of both rations and forage....†
*forage = search for and gather -- often food and provisions
- I will take steps at once to have your army supplied with rations, but I am sorry we have no forage for the animals.†
Definitions:
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(forage) to search for and gather -- often food and provisions
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(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.