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Definitions of foray in various dictionaries:
noun - a sudden short attack
noun - an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
verb - steal goods
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| Quick raid |
| Incursion |
| Initial venture |
| Sudden attack |
| Sudden strike |
| Venture |
| Quick attack |
| Plundering opportunity |
| Raid |
| Raid for plunder |
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| A brief raid or excursion |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| Make or go on a foray. |
| A sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory, especially to obtain something a raid. |
| a sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory, especially to obtain something a raid. |
| make or go on a foray. |
| steal goods take as spoils |
| a sudden short attack |
| briefly enter enemy territory |
| an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) |
| Archaic To pillage in search of spoils. |
| A venture or an initial attempt, especially outside one's usual area: an actor's foray into politics. |
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A foray (Polish: zajazd, Ukrainian: ) was a traditional method of law enforcement in Grand Duchy of Lithuania and PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. In view of the weakness of the executive in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was used by members of the szlachta to defend their rights. * In legal practice, foray was sanctioned by starosta officials, and was the fourth step in the execution of a legal ruling. After the guilty party refused to abandon the disputed property, starosta would call his supporters as well as opponents of the guilty party (therefore creating a temporary force of militia) and attempt to remove the guilty party from his manor. * Since the mid-17th century, forays were increasingly done without a legal sanction simply when a member of szlachta would gather his supporters and raid an estate of his opponent. They would become a common occurrence during the period of noble's anarchy in the Commonwealth. * In literature, forays were most famously portrayed in Adam Mickie |