copyholder
Americannoun
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a person or thing that holds copy.
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a device for holding copy in its place, as on a printer's frame or on a typewriter.
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a proofreader's assistant who reads copy aloud or follows it while proof is read for the detection of deviations from it in proof.
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a person who holds an estate in copyhold.
noun
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printing one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
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printing a device that holds copy in place for the compositor
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law (formerly) a person who held land by copyhold tenure
Etymology
Origin of copyholder
Example Sentences
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He drove a delivery wagon for a grocer, ushered at a theater, was even a copyholder in the proofroom of a newspaper.
From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod
The rise of the copyholder from a state of uncertainty to certainty of tenure appears to have been very gradual.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
It extended the franchise to the copyholder, and to the farmer paying 50 pounds rent, in the counties; it gave the towns a uniform 10 pounds household franchise.
From Short History of Wales by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir
A special custom is required to entitle the wife of a copyholder to any interest in her husband’s lands on his death intestate.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
Most former voters and every leaseholder and every copyholder were excluded.
From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.
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