| 释义 |
foraging, vbl. n.|ˈfɒrɪdʒɪŋ|
[see -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. forage in various senses.
1481Caxton Godfrey xxxv. 72 The noble men..sente out on fouragyng ouer alle the countrey. 1651–3Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xvii. 216 A Libian Tiger drawn from his wilder forragings. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 20 They..had been signally enriched by the foraging of the previous evening. 1861Holland Less. Life xxiii. 327 His Childe Harold is nothing but the record of his tireless foraging.
2. Comb., as foraging-expedition, foraging-party, foraging-ship; foraging-cap = forage-cap.
1830Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 144 Dressed in a neat blue frock and a *foraging cap.
1863Bates Nat. Amazon II. v. 363 This ant goes on *foraging-expeditions like the rest of its tribe.
1780D. Brodhead in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) III. 10 Unless I send out *foraging parties, and impress cattle.
1809Naval Chron. XXI. 394 note, The Conqueror..was a *foraging ship. |