copyholder

noun

Etymology

From copy + holder.

Definitions

  1. A person who rents land under the copyhold system.

    • Rents had risen so much […] that copyholders had to hire themselves out as wage labourers or shepherds.
  2. A device that holds copy in place for typesetting.

  3. A person who holds copy and reads it aloud to a proofreader, who checks the typeset text…

    A person who holds copy and reads it aloud to a proofreader, who checks the typeset text against it.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for copyholder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA