Up·hold·er n.
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.
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upholder
n : someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of
tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of
democracy" [syn: maintainer, sustainer]