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Copyholder   Listen
noun
Copyholder  n.  
1.
(Eng. Law) One possessed of land in copyhold.
2.
(print.)
(a)
A device for holding copy for a compositor.
(b)
One who reads copy to a proof reader.





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"Copyholder" Quotes from Famous Books



... interpreted in a more destructive fashion than its words were intended to convey. Up to this time all suitors who attended at the Sheriff's Court had voted without question for the Knight of the Shire, but by the new statute the great bulk of the existing voters, every leaseholder and every copyholder, found themselves implicitly deprived of ...
— History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) - The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 • John Richard Green


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