agist

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[əˈdʒɪst], (Verb)

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- take in and feed (livestock) for payment
(e.g: the dairy farmer might wish to agist lambs after the cows are housed for the winter)


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late Middle English (in the sense ‘use or allow the use of land for pasture’): from Old French agister, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + gister, from giste ‘lodging’


[ˈeɪdʒɪst], (Noun)

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