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copyholder

[ kop-ee-hohl-der ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

copyholder

/ ˈkɒpɪˌhəʊldə /

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

1425–75; late Middle English. See copyhold, -er ¹

A copyholder without legal remedy may seem little better than a tenant in mere villenage, except in name.

For it is the destruction of the inheritance and against the nature of a copyholder for life.

In 1581 it interferes to protect a copyholder who has been kept out of his holding by the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough.

A tenant at a quit rent is, to all intents and purposes, a proprietor; a copyholder is not less so than a freeholder.

So after a while instead of "villein" he became a "copyholder."

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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