agistor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
  2. 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.

Word forms

agistor agistors

Etymology

From agist + -or.

Related words

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