copyholder

Etymology

From copy + holder.

copyholder means A person who rents land under the copyhold system. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

A person who rents land under the copyhold system.“Rents had risen so much […] that copyholders had to hire themselves out as wage labourers or shepherds.”
A device that holds copy in place for typesetting.
A person who holds copy and reads it aloud to a proofreader, who checks the typeset text against it.