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noun

Copyholder n.

(Eng. Law) One possessed of land in copyhold.

(print.)

(a)

A device for holding copy for a compositor.

(b)

One who reads copy to a proof reader.

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Etymology of 'Copyholder'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Copyholder" Quotes from Famous Books

... of labour nor inflict the cruel punishments which had been common in Poland and Hungary. What the villein was in England in the thirteenth century, that the serf was in Prussia in the year 1806; and the change which in England gradually elevated the villein into the free copyholder was that change which, so many centuries later, the Prussian legislator effected by one great measure. Stein made the Prussian peasant what the English copyholder had become at the accession of Henry VII., and what the French peasant had been before 1789, a free person, but ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... member only; except Monmouth, which had two. Each shire town had one member, except that of Merioneth; and Haverfordwest was given a member. The county franchise was the forty shilling freehold; it therefore excluded not only those who had no connection with the land, but the copyholder—who was really a landowner, but whose tenure was regarded as base, on account of his villein origin. This copyholder was undoubtedly the descendant of the ...

— A Short History of Wales • Owen M. Edwards