*holder*

1. A person who holds a bill or acceptance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A device by means of which bills, etc., are held. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A prompter at a theater. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A headborough; a borsholder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. borsolder; prob. fr. AS. borg, gen. borges, pledge + ealdor elder. See Borrow, and Elder, a. ] (Eng. Law) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Eng. Law) One possessed of land in copyhold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (print.) (a) A device for holding copy for a compositor. (b) One who reads copy to a proof reader. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Law) The possessor of a freehold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who owns local property and has been a resident for a certain period of years; -- used in some U.S. counties. [ U.S., local ] [ PJC ]

3. (Politics, U.S) A member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of some county, such a board being a form of legislative and administrive body which controls the government in some counties in the United States. [ U.S., local ] [ PJC ]

a. One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The flicker; -- called also high-hole. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, holds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Holder is much used as the second part of a compound; as, shareholder, officeholder, stockholder, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. See hold forth (b) under hold. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. [ 1913 Webster ]

Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compound householder. See Compound, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inhabitant. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who keeps an inn.
Syn. -- innkeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. -- Land"hold`ing, n. & a. [1913 Webster]

n. A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing, a. & n. [1913 Webster]

n. One who holds an office; an officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A handle for a pen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shipowner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds slaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. stadhouder; stad a city, a town + houder a holder. ] Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The office or position of a stadtholder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Up + holder. Cf. Upholsterer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An undertaker, or provider for funerals. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An upholsterer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer. [ 1913 Webster ]