bookholder
English
Etymology
book + holder
Noun
bookholder (plural bookholders)
- A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.
- (obsolete) A prompter at a theatre.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 bookholder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)