A person who feeds, cares for, and manages livestock belonging to others in exchange for payment.
From Old French agister, with the agent suffix -er (one who). The -er suffix is English, making this a hybrid form combining Old French roots with English word formation.
Aginsters were essential to medieval and early modern farming communities—without them, farmers couldn't survive crop failures because they could send their animals to richer pastures elsewhere, making agistment insurance against starvation.
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