billholder

English

Etymology

Noun

billholder (plural billholders)

One who holds a bill or acceptance.
A device by means of which bills, etc., are held.
- 1876, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office:
  The ordinary pocket-wallet is designed to receive bank-bills only when they are folded several times upon themselves […] I also intend to limit my claim to a bill-holder that is constructed of an outside back and inside lining […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “billholder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)