Agistment

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The price paid for such feeding.

II. Agistment ·noun The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.

III. Agistment ·noun Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.

IV. Agistment ·noun A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, ·i.e., charge for banks or dikes.

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