ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Agistor

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Agistor is a noun meaning One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

  1. (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.

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Related dictionary entries include agister, adjutator, pastoress, agrotourist, fromagier, agitator.

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