Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Upholder"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Upholder \Up*hold"er\, n. [Up + holder. Cf. {Upholsterer}.]
1. A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. [Obs.]
2. An undertaker, or provider for funerals. [Obs.]
The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. --Gay.
3. An upholsterer. [Obs.]
4. One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender;
a sustainer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
upholder
n : someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of
tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of
democracy" [syn: {maintainer}, {sustainer}]
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