forager
a person or animal who goes out in search of food or provisions of any kind:The ants you see are the foragers, out looking for food and water, and they represent only a very small number of the total colony.
someone who collects or obtains things through hunting or searching about:We meet the protagonist struggling to make ends meet as a scrap-metal forager in a remote community.
Origin of forager
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How to use forager in a sentence
In California, tourists have been pitted against career foragers, causing problems for wild mushrooms and abalone.
The Foraging Wars: Extreme Eating Hits California | Debra A. Klein | January 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEven so, Farcau points not only to weekend warriors but also commercial foragers who contribute to the problem.
The Foraging Wars: Extreme Eating Hits California | Debra A. Klein | January 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLike storm chasers, Alaskan crabbers, and catfish noodlers, foragers come with their own sets of customs and rules.
Chronicling the fungus foragers who count posh New York restaurants as their clients.
Morel Mushroom Toasts by Alice Waters The official mushroom of Minnesota, the morel is a particular spring prize for foragers.
The foragers had hoops, also, but they were to throw down theirs, and to make their escape at the signal agreed on.
Digby Heathcote | W.H.G. KingstonThey despatch by the sound of the gong the foragers for grass, and insure expedition and security by rewards and punishments.
For a moment he thought of turning off through the woods and giving these night foragers a wide berth.
The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. RobertsIt was lucky for us that the foragers were well loaded up with spoil and their movements and aim thus impeded.
In Hostile Red | Joseph AltshelerThe first evening of the trip the foragers brought back to camp among other things a bag of oatmeal.
Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 | Various
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