Agistment

1. n. A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.
2. n. Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men’s cattle in the king’s forests.
3. n. The taking in by any one of other men’s cattle to graze at a certain rate.
4. n. The price paid for such feeding.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.