Bookholder

Bookholder
Bookholder Book"hold`er, n. 1. A prompter at a theater. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]

2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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