Citations:upstander

Noun: "a person who stands up for something, as contrasted to a bystander who remains inactive"

 * 2006 — Nicholas D. Kirstof, "Heroes of Darfur", The New York Times, 7 May 2006:
 * Professor Reeves has been a full-time upstander on Sudan since 1999, back when the people being slaughtered there were Christians in the south of the country.
 * 2009 — Robert L. Smith, "Exhibit on diversity shows there's work to do: Global Village", The Plain Dealer, 21 October 2009:
 * The examples of local "upstanders" (as opposed to bystanders) lead to exhibits that explore larger, history-making conflicts and the consequences of the action, or inaction, that followed.
 * 2009 — Arlene Nisson Lassin, "Taking matters into his own hands", The Houston Chronicle, 5 November 2009:
 * "This group has taken on a life of its own, and it has become time consuming for me, but I would rather be an 'upstander,' and do something about the hatred, than be a bystander."
 * 2012 — Michael R. Ebert, "Nassau: Students tackle cyberbullying", Newsday, 4 April 2012:
 * "The goal is to curb cyberbullying and change the attitude of teens. It's better to be an upstander than a bystander."

Noun: "(archaic) one of the upright handlebars on a traditional Inuit sled"

 * 1876 — William Henry Davenport Adams, The Arctic: A History of Its Discovery, Its Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena, George Tod (1876), pages 195-196:
 * the hunter with his right hand threw out the coils of his long whip-lash, with his left he seized an upstander, and propelling the sledge a few paces, he uttered at the same moment the shrill starting-cry, "Ka! ka! — ka! ka!" which sent the dogs in a bound to their places, and away they dashed over the rugged ice.
 * 1898 — Robert E. Peary, Northward Over the "Great Ice", Methuen & Co. (1898), pages 331-332:
 * Ihrllie and I both jumped off our sledge, and each with a hand on an upstander, urged on our team, excited, but handicapped by the heavy load.
 * 1899 — Charles Lanman, Farthest North, D. Appleton and Company (1889), page 265:
 * The large tent was left standing with the big sledge alongside and the American flag flying from the upstander.
 * 1913 — T. Everett Harré, The Eternal Maiden, J. J. Little & Ives Company (1913), pages 216-217:
 * With quick presence of mind, Ootah grasped the rear upstander of the sled, which had begun to slide to and fro, and planted his harpoon in the ice.