keyholder
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
keyholder (plural keyholders)
- One who holds the key to a building etc. for security reasons.
- Synonym: claviger
- (cryptography) The individual or organisation with access to a cryptographic key.
- A device or component for holding a key.
- 1978, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 32:
- A key duplicating machine comprising […] a keyholder attached to said shaft, said keyholder providing for holding a key blank and an existing key having notches thereon; […]
- (BDSM) A dominant partner who controls whether their submissive partner is able or allowed to orgasm or receive sexual stimulation, typically by locking the submissive partner in a chastity belt or chastity cage.