copyholder
a person or thing that holds copy.
a device for holding copy in its place, as on a printer's frame or on a typewriter.
a proofreader's assistant who reads copy aloud or follows it while proof is read for the detection of deviations from it in proof.
a person who holds an estate in copyhold.
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How to use copyholder in a sentence
A copyholder without legal remedy may seem little better than a tenant in mere villenage, except in name.
For it is the destruction of the inheritance and against the nature of a copyholder for life.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century | Richard Henry TawneyIn 1581 it interferes to protect a copyholder who has been kept out of his holding by the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century | Richard Henry TawneyA tenant at a quit rent is, to all intents and purposes, a proprietor; a copyholder is not less so than a freeholder.
Present Irish Questions | William O'Connor MorrisSo after a while instead of "villein" he became a "copyholder."
British Dictionary definitions for copyholder
/ (ˈkɒpɪˌhəʊldə) /
printing one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
printing a device that holds copy in place for the compositor
law (formerly) a person who held land by copyhold tenure
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