See Also: upholder(dictionary)

upholder (iou)



upholder noun. ME.
[from UPHOLD + -ER1.]
a. An upholsterer (now only as a guild-name). Formerly also, a dealer in small wares or secondhand goods. ME.
Times The Lord Mayor..attended the annual dinner of the Upholders' Company.
b. An undertaker. E18-E20.
A person who or thing which upholds someone or something. LME.
J. Woodall Wheat flower..is the principall naturall upholder of the life and health of man. H. Carpenter I was an upholder of the old stern doctrines.