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holders-up

holders-up is the plural of holder-up.

Meaning of holder-up

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.

Questions about holders-up

What is holders-up the plural of?
Holders-up is the plural of holder-up.

Words near holders-up in the dictionary

  1. Holderman
  2. Holdermans
  3. Holderness
  4. Holdernesses
  5. holders
  6. holders-up
  7. holdership
  8. holderships
  9. holdest
  10. holdeth
  11. holdfast

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