Supporter

1. n. A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.
2. n. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.
3. n. Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate.
4. n. A knee placed under the cathead.
5. n. A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.