copyhold

From copy +‎ hold.

• enPR: kŏp′ē-hōld′
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒp.iːˈhəʊld/

  (older Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔːp.iːˈhəʊld/

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔp.iˈhoʊld/

  (General American, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑp.iˈhoʊld/

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒp.iˈhoʊld/

  (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑp.iˈhoʊld/

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔp.iːˈhəʉld/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒp.iːˈhɐʉld/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔp.iˈhold/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔp.iːˈhoːlɖ/
• Rhymes: -əʊld
• Hyphenation: cop‧y‧hold

copyhold (countable and uncountable, plural copyholds)

2. (property law, historical) A former form of tenure in which the title deeds were a copy of the manorial roll.
   • 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, page 311:

     […] this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lēx locī reī sitae.