Associations to the word «Agistment»

Wiktionary

AGISTMENT, noun. The taking in by any one of other people's livestock to graze at a certain rate.
AGISTMENT, noun. A charge or rate against lands, such as an agistment of sea banks (i.e. charge for banks or dikes).
AGISTMENT, noun. Formerly, the taking and feeding of other people's cattle in the king's forests; the price paid for such a feeding.

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.