Forage

Forage ( verb form: four act ), also Furage or Fouragierung (French fourrage ) is an obsolete military name for horse feed oats, hay and straw; Therefore, foraging, procure horses feed.

With the diminishing importance of the military cavalry and drawn by horses or mules artillery in the late 19th century, the term is obsolete and is only used metaphorically in the upscale vernacular.

A distinction was dry and green Fouragierung, depending on whether the forage taken from the barns on site or had been mowed in fields and meadows. The mercenaries 'and soldiers' jargon thus also the food sourcing or euphemistically was also referred to the looting, including pillaging, rape and massacre belonged. Four Acts patrols have also been called "Party". The term " go to party " here takes on the role of Fouragierung and looting.

A cavalry charge in order resolved across field was fourrageurs French attaque en.

In behavioral biology, the term four act was procurement of food by the workers state-forming insects.

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