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holder-up

holder-up noun: one who holds up something.

holder-up: one who holds up something
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Noun

holder-up (plural holders-up)

  1. One who holds up something.
  2. A bucker; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet (heated if necessary till it is soft), while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable-impulse pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.

Forms of holder-up

pluralholders-up

Questions about holder-up

What does holder-up mean?
Holder-up means one who holds up something.
What part of speech is holder-up?
Holder-up is a noun.
What is the plural of holder-up?
The plural of holder-up is holders-up.

Words near holder-up in the dictionary

  1. Holdens
  2. Holdenville
  3. holder
  4. holder-forth
  5. holder-on
  6. holder-up
  7. holderbat
  8. holderbats
  9. Holderbaum
  10. Holderbaums
  11. Holderby

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