Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the vagina.

1663		Wandring Whore VI 3: A couple of White chappl Curtezans had their Copy-holds toucht, and so put the finger i’th eye, and told their contented husbands how great their sorrows were.
1680		Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 2: Her Fathers Ploughman and the Squire their landlord [...] were Joint Tenants to her Copyhold.
1694		Comforts of Whoreing 29: For a Guinea or two [he] takes immediate Possession of her Copyhold ‘Pretty Kate of Windsor’.
a.1700		‘Jenny Crack’ in Pepys Ballads (1987) III 177: When I felt her breast she cry’d I was bold, . . . But when I came to her Copy-hold, I found her as mad as the Devil.
1705		Wandering Spy XV 8–15 Sept. 60: Take a glass of Wine, in order to treat about your Copyhold.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy II 9: And if the Lawyer touch your Copy-hold, / The devil will ne’er get it from him. [Ibid.] 24: [He] swore he’d Cheat her Landlord, and she should pay no Rent; He question’d the Fee simple; but him she plainly told, I’ll keep in spight of Law Tricks, mine own dear Copy-hold.
1723		Rape of the Bride 43: With a felonious Intention / The Plaintiff’s Copy-hold did seize, / [...] /With naked Weapon in his Hand.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 260: Un (l’), m. The female pudendum; ‘the copyhold’.

2. a wife.

1772

Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 241: The huffy told her spouse, / He try’d to be about her house: / And one dark night the baggage said, / He threw her down upon the bed [...] No sooner was th’ old fellow told / This youth attacked his copyhold, / But he was bloody wroth.