AGIST'OR, or AGISTA'TOR noun An officer of the king's forest, who has the care of cattle agisted, and collects the money for the same; hence called gist-taker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.