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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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
I feel what I owe you, and, independently of this, I love you as a friend,—indeed so much that I regret, seriously regret, that you have been my copyholder.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by A. Turnbull
Most former voters and every leaseholder and every copyholder were excluded.
From Our Legal Heritage by S. A. Reilly
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 William MacLeod Raine
However, in the reign of Edward IV. this was put out of doubt by the judges, who permitted the copyholder to bring his action of trespass against the lord for dispossession.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
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