To feed and care for someone else's livestock for a fee, or to take in cattle to pasture for payment.
From Old French agister, related to Old French giste (lodging). The term evolved from medieval agricultural practice where farmers would board animals for payment.
Agisting was a crucial medieval and early modern service—farmers with poor pasture could rent their animals to farmers with better land, creating complex financial relationships that led to entire legal codes about animal care and liability.
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