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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FORAGE , See also:

food for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle or horses, chiefly the provender collected for the food of the horses of an See also:

army. In See also:

early usage the word was confined to the dried forage as opposed to grass. From this word comes " foray," an expedition in See also:

SEARCH, or VISIT AND SEARCH

search of " forage," and hence a pillaging expedition, a- See also:

RAID

raid. The word " forage," directly derived from the Fr. fourrage, comes from a See also:

COMMON

common See also:

Teutonic origin, and appears in " See also:

FODDER

fodder," food for cattle. The ultimate Indo-See also:

EUROPEAN

European See also:

root, pat, cf.

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