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English
Etymology
From copy + holder.
Noun
copyholder (plural copyholders)
- (historical) 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.
- (dated, publishing) A device that holds copy in place for typesetting.
- (dated, publishing) 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