forager

[ fawr-i-jer, for- ]
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noun
  1. 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.

  2. 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

1
First recorded in 1350–1400, for an earlier sense; forag(e) + -er1

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How to use forager in a sentence

  • 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. Kingston
  • They 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. Roberts
  • It was lucky for us that the foragers were well loaded up with spoil and their movements and aim thus impeded.

    In Hostile Red | Joseph Altsheler
  • The first evening of the trip the foragers brought back to camp among other things a bag of oatmeal.