foraging

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FOR'AGING, participle present tense or adjective Collecting provisions for horses and cattle, or wandering in search of food; ravaging; stripping. The general sent out a foraging party, with a guard. FOR'AGING, noun An inroad or incursion for forage or plunder.
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