[a. Anglo Fr. agistour, f. agister: see AGIST and -OR.] One who agists. spec. An officer of the royal forests, who takes charge of cattle agisted, and accounts for the money paid for their agistment.
[1327. Stat. 1 Edw. 3. viii. Foresters, verdours, regardours, agistours, et autres ministres de mesme le forest.]
1483. Cath. Anglic., A gister: Agistator.
1598. Manwood, Lawes of Forest, xi. § 1 (1615), 80/1. The kings Agistors of his Forest … doe receiue and take in the beasts and cattell of euery person.
1812. W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., XXXIV. 210. A forest has laws and officers of its own as foresters, verdours, rangers, and agisters.
1837. W. & M. Howitt, Rur. Life, V. i. (1862), 357. Agistors also, to look after the agistment of cattle.
