Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Upholder

Upholder , noun

[Up + holder. Compare Upholsterer.]

1.
A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. [Obsolete]
2.
An undertaker, or provider for funerals. [Obsolete]
The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. — Gay
3.
An upholsterer. [Obsolete]
4.
One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.