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Definition: gisttaker
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.
[1913 Webster]