Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-GIST'OR, or A-GIST-A'TOR
A-GIST'OR, or A-GIST-A'TOR, n.
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. – Encyc.
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