Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
agistage . - noun A dike or embankment to prevent the overflow of a stream or encroachments of the sea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.
- noun The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.
- noun The price paid for such feeding.
- noun A charge or rate against lands.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
taking in by any one of other people'slivestock tograze at a certain rate. - noun A
charge orrate againstlands ; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes. - noun Formerly, the taking and
feeding of other people's cattle in theking 's forests; theprice paid for such a feeding.
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Examples
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But the most valued is that of agistment or pasturage, especially of ponies.
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The tithe of agistment or pasturage, lately abolished, had made the tithe of tillage more unjust and unequal.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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The tithe of agistment or pasturage, lately abolished, had made the tithe of tillage more unjust and unequal.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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The tithe of agistment got rid of by the Irish gentry, and the chief burden of the tithe thereby thrown on the farmers and peasantry.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829
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Slain horse owner fears for her family THE owner of a former show horse stabbed and scalped while in agistment says she can't believe anyone could be so evil.
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RSPCA senior inspector Daniel Bode today said the knife attack on 15-year-old dressage champion Cachet in an agistment paddock was "absolutely shocking".
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Vet Dr Bob Fielding says the gelding was targeted when it was on agistment.
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THE Albury-Wodonga Equestrian Centre is on "high alert" after a horse was found mutilated at one of its agistment paddocks on Tuesday.
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Sonia Carboni adores former galloper Phoenix Express, who lives at her thoroughbred agistment property in Kilmore.
Star News Group 2010
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He pays $30,000 a month for feed and half his cattle in agistment.
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