= agistment, n. 3.

The action or process of taking livestock to feed at an agreed rate; (also) the opening of a forest for a specified time to livestock. †Also in plural…

obsolete and dialect ff. gist, n.2, agistment.

The pasturing of another person's cattle for payment; an amount levied or paid for this. Also attributive, as justment ground, justment rent. Cf. agis…

The action of taking livestock in to pasture on agistment.

= agistment, n.

The action or function of agisting; agistment.

(See quot. 1848.)