copyholder

[kop-ee-hohl-der]

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noun

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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Origin of copyholder

1425–75; late Middle English. See copyhold, -er¹

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Examples from the Web for copyholder

In 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 Tawney
Most former electors and every leaseholder and every copyholder were now excluded.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.|S. A. Reilly
A copyholder without legal remedy may seem little better than a tenant in mere villenage, except in name.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3)|Henry Hallam
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 Tawney

So after a while instead of "villein" he became a "copyholder."
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May 1899|Various

British Dictionary definitions for copyholder

copyholder

noun

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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copyholder

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copyholder

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