agistedadj.
/əˈdʒɪstᵻd/, U.S. /əˈdʒɪstəd/, Australian English /əˈdʒɪstəd/, New Zealand English /əˈdʒɪstəd/ Now chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
Of an animal: that has been put to pasture, usually for hire on land not belonging to their owner. Also of land: used by livestock that has been agisted.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [adjective] > pasture > hired
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [adjective] > pasturing > pastured > for rent
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1669 Exchequer Bk. Decrees P.R.O.: E 126/10 f. 68v For Cattle fatted for sale & agisted Cattle..tythes ought to bee paid according to ye yearely value of ye ground whereon they were fedd.
1718 G. Duncombe Trials per Pais (ed. 5) xv. 398 If agisted Cattle do Trespass, the Agistor shall answer.
1792 R. Wooddeson Systematical View Laws of Eng. II. xxii. 98 This is not so open to fraud as the case of aftermath; neither does it impoverish the agisted land.
1846 Law Reporter 325/2 A party into whose land agisted cattle escape, and there do damage, may maintain an action of trespass against the general owner of the cattle.
1882 Daily News 8 Mar. 4/6 Exempting agisted stock and hired machinery from seizure.
1942 Times 28 Dec. 6/7 Agisted cattle are included in the hope that lowland farmers..will send their replacement stock, including in-calf heifers, to the hills for summer grazing.
2011 Observer (Gladstone, Queensland) (Nexis) 21 Jan. 16 Until recently the cattle, raised for commercial sale, were fattened on agisted land.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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