agistment

[ uh-jist-ment ]

/ əˈdʒɪst mɛnt /

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the act of agisting.

a contract or an agreement to agist.

the fee paid or the profit made in agisting.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

First recorded in 1605–15; agist + -ment

Agistment, or the taking in of cattle or live stock to feed at a rate of so much per head, is a contract of bailment.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3|Various
But then the tithe of pasture agistment, as it was called, could no longer have been evaded.
Irish History and the Irish Question|Goldwin Smith
But the most valued is that of agistment or pasturage, especially of ponies.
The Customs of Old England|F. J. Snell