copyholder

English edit

From copy +‎ holder.

copyholder (plural copyholders)

(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.
(dated, publishing) A device that holds copy in place for typesetting.
(dated, publishing) A person who holds copy and reads it aloud to a proofreader, who checks the typeset text against it.

(now historical) a person who rents land under the copyhold system

a device that holds copy in place for typesetting