subreader

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ reader

Noun

subreader (plural subreaders)

1. (law, UK, archaic) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.
   • 1819, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North:

     When his lordship was reader, he made him his subreader, which shewed him to the society, and to men of his profession

References

• “subreader”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.