▪ I. gise, v. dial.
(dʒaɪs)
Also 7 juice.
[var. or back-formation from gist v.]
(See quots. 1695, 1869.)
| 1695 Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss. s.v. Agistator, To gise or juice ground is when the Lord or tenant feeds it not with his own stock, but takes in other cattle to agist or feed in it. 1706 in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Gise, to put cattle out to grass at a sum agreed on per head. 1876 Mid-Yorks. Gloss. s.v. Gise, He's some oxen gising in Twenty-lands. |
So gise-taker = gist-taker.
| 1848 Wharton Law Lex., Gisetaker, a person who takes cattle to graze. |
▪ II. gise
obs. f. guise; obs. pl. form of joist.