Scavage vs Forage - What's the difference?
scavage | forage |
(historical) A toll or duty anciently exacted from merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc. for goods offered for sale within their precincts.
To act as a scavenger, to scavenge. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
* 1819 , :
An act or instance of foraging.
* Shakespeare
* Marshall
* 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in , volume 56, number 3,
(obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population
To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
* 1841 , , The Deerslayer , Chapter 8:
To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
* 1599 , , Henry V , Act 1, Scene 2:
To rummage.
* 1898 , , The Wrecker :
As nouns the difference between scavage and forage
is that scavage is (historical) a toll or duty anciently exacted from merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc for goods offered for sale within their precincts while forage is fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.As verbs the difference between scavage and forage
is that scavage is to act as a scavenger, to scavenge while forage is to search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.scavage
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) scavage, schevage, schewage, from (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Back-formation from scavager.Verb
(scavag)forage
English
Noun
(en noun)- “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)
- He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
- Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
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- ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars:
Verb
(forag)- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
