forager
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
Etymology
Origin of forager
First recorded in 1350–1400, for an earlier sense; forag(e) ( def. ) + -er 1 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Trent Blizzard and his wife, Kristen, who run the Modern Forager website, where they share resources and recipes, sell burn maps of the Western United States for the morel-inclined.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023
Creators like Alexis Nicole Nelson, who’s best known on TikTok as Black Forager, and William Padilla-Brown, who’s known on Instagram as Permaculture Papi, have drawn audiences with their tips and finds.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023
Dreher, of Dodge Center, has been a firefighter and works at Forager Brewery.
From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2016
Miles Irving, who wrote the Forager Handbook and runs a company selling wild food to restaurants, disagrees.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2014
Operation Forager was under the command of Admiral Nimitz, and Marine General Holland Smith was in charge of the amphibious landings.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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