foray
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English forrayen (“to pillage”), a back-formation of forrayour, forreour, forrier (“raider, pillager”), from Old French forrier, fourrier, a derivative of fuerre (“provender, fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *patrom (“fodder”), *pat- (“to feed”), *pāy- (“to guard, graze, feed”).
Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóður (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food, forage.
Inflected forms:
form: forays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forrey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: forays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foraying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: forrey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
pos: noun
gloss: A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.
pos: noun
examples: Bastian Schweinsteiger and Muller were among many who should have added the third, and City were limited to rare forays with the excellent Boateng pinching the ball off Aguero and Aleksandar Kolarov shooting wide in stoppage time.
gloss: To participate in a foray.
pos: verb
examples: The people of Granada resumed all at once their ancient activity, foraying into the Christian territories, surprising Alhendin and some other places of less importance, and stirring up the spirit of revolt in Guadix and other conquered cities.
gloss: To do or attempt something outside one's typical area of expertise.
pos: verb
examples: "It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well."
Over the summer, I'd been following the news cycle, foraying into online journalism, and I wrote a couple of pieces on male victims of sexual violence, who are often left to the margins or forgotten altogether in feminist accounts of rape culture.
gloss: To scour an area for goods as part of a foray.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: He bad to open wyde his brazen gate,
 Which long time had bene shut, and out of hond
 Proclaymed joy and peace through all his state;
 For dead now was their foe which them forrayed late.
Bruce forayed Cumberland, and threatened Berwick, so that the poor Countess of Buchan was removed from thence to a more secure place of captivity.
Derived words: forayer
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ограбвам
roman: ograbvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: плячкосвам
roman: pljačkosvam
lang: Catalan
word: pillar
lang: Czech
word: vydrancovat
lang: Czech
word: drancovat
lang: Czech
word: vyrabovat
lang: Czech
word: rabovat
lang: Czech
word: zpustošit
lang: Czech
word: pustošit
lang: Finnish
word: ryöstää
lang: Finnish
word: hävittää
lang: French
word: fourrager
lang: Italian
word: scorrazzare
lang: Italian
word: irrompere
lang: Italian
word: razziare
lang: Māori
word: pāhua
lang: Māori
word: pāhuahua
lang: Māori
word: tunutunu makai
lang: Māori
word: tunutunu mākaikai
lang: Welsh
word: fforio