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Definitions

Noun

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

Etymology

From agist + -or.

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