forray
English edit
Noun edit
forray (plural forrays)
Verb edit
forray (third-person singular simple present forrays, present participle forraying, simple past and past participle forrayed)
- Obsolete form of foray.
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
- For they that morn had forrayed all the land.
References edit
- “forray”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.