Definitions for upholster

upholster up·hol·ster

Spelling: [uhp-hohl-ster, uh-pohl-]
IPA: /ʌpˈhoʊl stər, əˈpoʊl-/

Upholster is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 687 anagrams from letters in upholster (ehloprstu).

Definitions for upholster

verb (used with object)

  1. to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  2. to furnish (an interior) with hangings, curtains, carpets, or the like.

Origin of upholster

1850-55, Americanism; back formation from upholsterer

Examples for upholster

By no means an attractive piece of flesh and blood, and yet a good sample of the class that go to upholster a seraglio.

It would have been plain to any eye that it had cost something to upholster these women.

Deprive my figure of all drapery, or upholster it like a window-frame.

Under these conditions my Scolia-grubs contrive at most to upholster their little pit with a thick down of reddish silk.

In the afternoon with the upholster seeing him do things to my mind, and to my content he did fit my chamber and my wife's.

To upholster a chair seat, a frame should first be made of the shape shown in Fig. 298, C.

How many departed monks were required to upholster these six parlors?

Word Value for upholster
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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