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copyholder

NOUN
  1. mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor

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  • By the later 19th century historians writing of England from a European perspective often saw peasants as small freeholders, copyholders, and even farmers.
  • Also features an in-line copyholder so you can position documents for easy, comfortable viewing.
  • On the opposite side of the room was a large, massively-constructed copying camera, the front of which, carrying the lens, was fixed, and an easel or copyholder travelled on parallel guides towards, or away, from it, on a long stand. The Red Thumb Mark
  • By the 13th century the pattern was beginning to unravel as more and more villeins obtained their freedom and became copyholders.
  • These are the documents (L&M Companion) which detailed the surrender of the use of the land to Robert Pepys as copyholder and the terms on which it was so surrendered.
  • Every petty farmer and tenant and copyholder and peasant below him depends on my favor. The White Queen
  • Save space on your desk by securely suspending this copyholder from your partition or the edge of your desk.
  • Tenants of farms and copyholders were evicted by business-minded landlords.
  • No doubt many of the sub-tenants, even where they held originally by base and uncertain services and at the will of their superior, came in time, like the English copyholder, to have a generally-recognized right to the permanent possession of their holdings, while custom tended to fix the character and quantity of their services. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
  • Parliament, and a possessor of rights on the common both as a freeholder and a copyholder, was induced to take action in his own name and as a representative of other claimants of common rights. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
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