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agister |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Agister \A*gist"er\, Agistor \A*gist"or\, n. [Anglo-Norman agistour.] (Law) a Formerly, 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}. b Now one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. --Mozley & W.