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]