agistingn.
/əˈdʒɪstɪŋ/, U.S. /əˈdʒɪstɪŋ/, Australian English /əˈdʒɪstɪŋ/, New Zealand English /əˈdʒɪstɪŋ/ Now chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
The action of taking livestock in to pasture on agistment.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > agistment
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > pasturing for rent
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1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest xi. §1 This manner of taking in of cattell, to pasture or feede by the weeke, or by the moneth or otherwise, is called Agisting of beasts or cattell.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Pasture Le temps de vive pasture..Is from Michaelmas to Saint Andrewes-tide..the season of pawnage, or Agisting of swine in woods.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. ix. 219 The Bishop..and Ralph de Warewill had liberty of agisting their hogs.
1713 G. Jacob Compl. Court-keeper Index Case..Against an Executor for Agisting of Beasts.
1799 H. Wood Coll. Decrees Court Exchequer in Tithe-causes IV. 313 The occupiers of the said farms may, on Michaelmas Day, send their sheep into another parish, bring them back again on Lady Day, and pay only half tithes for the agisting of them therein.
1895 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 91 96/2 ‘Agisting’ means this: that the owner would let certain paddocks to stock-dealers, and those dealers may put, say, 2,000 sheep on a hundred-acre paddock for a week or ten days.
1910 Eng. Law Rep. 57 147 There was no rent reserved, but merely something paid for the agisting of the cattle.
2004 P. Huntington et al. Horse Sense i. 2 The advantage for the beginner of agisting at a centre is that there will always be other people around to ask for advice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
agistingadj.
/əˈdʒɪstɪŋ/, U.S. /əˈdʒɪstɪŋ/ 1. Of a farmer: that takes in the cattle of another person to pasture.
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1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. xxx. 453 The agisting farmer.
1814 E. Christian Origin, Progress, & Present State Bankrupt Law II. 341 It has I think been very erroneously stated that an agisting farmer cannot have a lien.
1996 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 June 84 Even if the cattle were contaminated before agistment, the agisting farmer might have to wear the blame.
2. Of livestock: feeding on hired pasture. Now rare.
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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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1877 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 381/1 The liability of agisting stock was established long ago.
1883 19th Cent. June 1043 The desirability of exempting hired machinery and agisting live stock from being appropriated by landlords in satisfaction of claims for rent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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