Middle English Dictionary Entry
fō̆rāǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fō̆rāǧe n. |
| Etymology | OF fourrage; AL foragium, furragium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp.forraien to forage.
1.
Feed for domestic animals, esp. hay, straw, or similar dry fodder.
Associated quotations
- [ (c1273) Chart.in Capes Hereford Cath.132 : In stabulis et grangia de foragio emendandis. ]
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)120/147 : Þe oxe and asse in hare manyour..hy seȝen hare creatour Lyggynde in hare forage.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.3868 : Gras tyme is doon, my fodder is now forage.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1422 : I wol no womman thritty yeer of age--It is but benestraw and greet forage.
- a1400 Þo oure lord god (Mrg M 957)320 : Whan..forage hem faille.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)3600 : Hay and Otys, fodder and forage.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Consulo (Hrl 2255)94 : No comparisoun twen good greyn and fforage.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2308 : Anoon gete al the foode within our wonys..Corn euerydel, larder, fisch, foul, forage, And that may not be brought in is to brenne.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)412 : Not in wynter but in somer ye begyn, ..That forage may begot as doth appent Of corne and grasse for horses sustenaunce.