agistor
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
agistor (plural agistors)
- One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
- (historical) 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.