forage

fourrage

Plantes ou autres aliments destinés aux animaux d’élevage, surtout aux vaches et aux chevaux.

En anglais simple : Plants or other food eaten by farm animals, especially cows and horses.

• The cattle need more forage.
• Farmers grow forage crops for winter feeding.
• Poor forage quality can affect the horses’ health.

Synonymes : fodder, feed

Expressions courantes : forage crop, fresh forage, forage quality

recherche de nourriture

Recherche ou sortie destinée à trouver de quoi manger.

En anglais simple : A trip or search to find food.

• We went on a forage for berries.
• Their morning forage brought them enough mushrooms for dinner.
• The birds returned from a successful forage.

Synonymes : food search, foraging trip

Expressions courantes : a forage, forage for food

chercher de la nourriture, fourrager

Explorer un endroit pour trouver et ramasser de la nourriture, parfois pour les animaux d’élevage.

En anglais simple : To search an area for food and collect it, sometimes for farm animals.

• The birds forage for food.
• We foraged for mushrooms in the woods.
• The villagers foraged for hay to feed their horses.

Comment l'utiliser : forage for something (They forage for berries in the woods.); forage in something (The animals forage in the forest.)

Synonymes : gather, search for food

Expressions courantes : forage for food, forage for something, forage in something

piller des provisions

Prendre de force des vivres et du matériel dans une région, surtout pour approvisionner une armée.

En anglais simple : To take food and supplies from an area, especially to support an army.

• The soldiers foraged for supplies.
• The army foraged the countryside during its advance.
• Troops had foraged nearby farms before reaching the town.

Comment l'utiliser : forage for something (The troops foraged for supplies in nearby villages.)

Synonymes : plunder, raid

Expressions courantes : forage for supplies, forage the countryside