Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Agistment

Agistment ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Old French agistement. See Agist.]

(a)
(Law) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.
(b)
(Law) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.
(c)
(Law) The price paid for such feeding.
(d)
(Law) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes. — Mozley & W