obs. and dial. f. GIST v., to agist.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXI. x. By joisting and laying in of the said beasts.
1767. A. Young, Farmer’s Lett. to People, 238. The common price of joisting a horse is one shilling and six-pence per week in clover.
1851. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XII. II. 408. Many of the labourers keep a cow, or ‘joist’ one upon a neighbouring farmer’s land.
