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Webster 1913 Edition


Upholder

Up-hold′er

,
Noun.
[
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Upholder

UPHOLDER

, n.
1.
One that upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.
2.
An undertaker; one who provides for funerals.

Definition 2024


upholder

upholder

English

Noun

upholder (plural upholders)

  1. someone who upholds something
  2. (obsolete) a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster