agistor

Meaning

Noun

  • One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
  • an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

Origin

Modern English dictionary

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