copyholder
English
Noun
copyholder (plural copyholders)
- (now 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.
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- A device that holds copy in place for typesetting.
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