Word Meanings - HAVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A possessor; a holder. Shak.

Related words: (words related to HAVER)

• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• POSSESSOR
  One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world.
• POSSESSORY
  Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. Possessory action or suit , an action to regain or obtain possession of something. See under Petitory.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• CANDLEHOLDER
  One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
• BOOKHOLDER
  1. A prompter at a theater. Beau & Fl. 2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
• BONDHOLDER
  A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
• DISPOSSESSOR
  One who dispossesses. Cowley.
• INNHOLDER
  One who keeps an inn.
• STAKEHOLDER
  The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
• PENHOLDER
  A handle for a pen.
• STOCKHOLDER
  One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
• LANDHOLDER
  A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. -- Land"hold`ing, n. & a.
• BOROUGHHOLDER
  A headborough; a borsholder.
• WITHHOLDER
  One who withholds.
• FUNDHOLDER
  One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill.
• SHIPHOLDER
  A shipowner.