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UPHOLSTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upholster mean? 

UPHOLSTER (verb)
  The verb UPHOLSTER has 1 sense:

1. provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and coversplay

  Familiarity information: UPHOLSTER used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UPHOLSTER (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they upholster  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it upholsters  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: upholstered  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: upholstered  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: upholstering  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "upholster" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

cabinetry; cabinetwork (the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

upholsterer (a craftsman who upholsters furniture)

upholstery (the craft of upholstering)

upholstery (covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture)


 Context examples 


It is a picture, and I can see it now,—the jagged edges of the hole in the side of the cabin, through which the grey fog swirled and eddied; the empty upholstered seats, littered with all the evidences of sudden flight, such as packages, hand satchels, umbrellas, and wraps; the stout gentleman who had been reading my essay, encased in cork and canvas, the magazine still in his hand, and asking me with monotonous insistence if I thought there was any danger; the red-faced man, stumping gallantly around on his artificial legs and buckling life-preservers on all comers; and finally, the screaming bedlam of women.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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