forage

About 1.82 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
2. noun An act or instance of foraging.
3. noun The demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population.
4. verb To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
5. verb To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
6. verb To rummage.
7. verb Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.

Similar words

eatage pasturage pasture scrounge grass grazing fodder hay silage feeding

Often followed by

for and crops in plants production is on crop

Word family

foraged forager foragers forages foraging