agistern.
/əˈdʒɪstə/, U.S. /əˈdʒɪstər/ A person who supervises the agistment of livestock; (now chiefly) spec. an officer of the royal forests, who takes charge of animals agisted, and accounts for the money paid for their agistment.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > agistment > one who agists
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > pasturing for rent > person
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1677 R. Thoroton Antiq. Notts. 506/2 The state of this Forest at this present consists of a Warden, his Lieutenant,..four Agisters, and twelve Keepers or Foresters in the main Forest.
1753 C. Viner Gen. Abridgm. Law & Equity IX. 38 The Plaintiff being Rector of the Parish of Hemyoke in Devonshire, brought a Bill for agistment Tithes against the Agister.
1781 W. Jones Ess. Law Bailments 92 An action against an agister for keeping a horse so negligently that it was stolen.
1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 34 210 A forest has laws and officers of its own as foresters, verdours, rangers, and agisters.
1859 Amer. Law Reg. 7 407 Either the owner or agister of cattle may,..be sued for the trespass of agisted cattle.
1928 Times 6 June 11/3 The ponies are the property of private individuals, and before being turned out into the Forest have to be branded by the agisters.
1999 A. Mallinson Close Run Thing (2000) vi. 133 I've been sole agister on these downs for three summers now.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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