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Forage vs Provender - What's the difference?

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Forage is a synonym of provender.


As nouns the difference between forage and provender

is that forage is fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses while provender is food, especially for livestock.

As a verb forage

is to search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.

forage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
  • * 1819 , :
    • “The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage , which he spread before the knight's charger.
    (Dryden)
  • An act or instance of foraging.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
  • * Marshall
    • Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
  • * 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in , volume 56, number 3, page 304:
    • ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars:
  • (obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population

    • Verb

    (forag)
  • To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
  • * 1841 , , The Deerslayer , Chapter 8:
    • The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.
  • To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
  • * 1599 , , Henry V , Act 1, Scene 2:
    • And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility.
  • To rummage.
  • * 1898 , , The Wrecker :
    • Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed.

    Derived terms

    * forager

    provender

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Food, especially for livestock.
  • * 1663 ,
    • He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender , wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
  • An edible material that provides sustenance.

    • Synonyms

    * (animal food) fodder

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