Forage

Fourage ( verb form : four act) even Furage or Fourragierung ( French . Fourrage ) is an obsolete military term for horse feed: oats , hay and straw ; therefore furious , bring horse fodder and food for the troops.

With the declining military importance of the cavalry and the artillery drawn by horses and mules in the late 19th century, the term has become obsolete and is only used metaphorically in sophisticated colloquial language.

A distinction was made between dry and green forage, depending on whether the forage had been fetched from the forage magazines or the barns on site or whether it had been mowed in fields and meadows. In mercenary and soldier jargon , it also referred to the procurement of food or, euphemistically , looting , which included pillage , rape and massacre . Forage troops were also referred to as "party". The expression "take sides" takes on the meaning of foraging and looting. This is how Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen writes in his picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus, published in 1668, in chapter 136: ... I acted as a court master for this colonel and with his servants and horses kept him and his entire housekeeping with stealing and robbery, which one acts as a soldier calls .

An attack of the cavalry in a broken order across the field was called in French attaque en fourrageurs .

In behavioral biology , the term fouraging describes the creation of food by the workers of state-building insects .

In some European armed forces, the usually higher rank of non-commissioned officer or the official title of Fourier goes back semantically to the French word stem fourrage .

See also

• Horse bread

Wiktionary: furieren  - explanations of meanings, word origins , synonyms, translations

literature

• Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen : The adventurous Simplicissimus (from the German of the 17th century and with an afterword by Reinhard Kaiser). One-volume special edition of the 296th and 297th volumes of the Other Library , Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-8218-4772-6 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Fourage  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: Furage  - explanations of meanings, origins of words , synonyms, translations

Single receipts

1. ↑ Bernhard Seifert: The ants of Central and Northern Europe. lutra Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Tauer 2007, ISBN 978-3-936412-03-1 .