copyholder
English
Etymology
From copy + holderCategory:English compound terms#COPYHOLDER.
Noun
copyholder (plural copyholders)Category:English lemmas#COPYHOLDERCategory:English nouns#COPYHOLDERCategory:English countable nouns#COPYHOLDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COPYHOLDERCategory:Pages with entries#COPYHOLDERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#COPYHOLDER
- (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#COPYHOLDER) A person who rents land under the copyhold system.
- 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 86:
- Rents had risen so much […] that copyholders had to hire themselves out as wage labourers or shepherds.Category:English terms with quotations#COPYHOLDER
- (datedCategory:English dated terms#COPYHOLDER, publishingCategory:en:Publishing#COPYHOLDER) A device that holds copy in place for typesetting.
- (datedCategory:English dated terms#COPYHOLDER, publishingCategory:en:Publishing#COPYHOLDER) A person who holds copy and reads it aloud to a proofreader, who checks the typeset text against it.
Translations
(now historical) a person who rents land under the copyhold system
a device that holds copy in place for typesetting
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