[f. prec.]
1. trans. To cover with, enclose or envelop in, a wrapper.
1885. C. G. W. Lock, Workshop Receipts, Ser. IV. 263/1. Vegetable parchment … is used very extensively … for wrappering the better class of literature.
1890. W. J. Gordon, Foundry, 209. Delivering the papers folded and wrappered ready for post.
1893. Sat. Rev., 7 Jan., 24/2. A volume in quarto, handsomely, but alas! very loosely, wrappered.
2. To cover up in or as in a wrapper.
1905. H. G. Wells, Kipps, II. ix. All the stalls were wrappered up, and all the minor exhibitions locked and barred.
Hence Wrappered (-up), ppl. a. Also Wrapperer, one who covers (esp. magazines or books) with wrappers.
1896. H. G. Wells, Wheels of Chance, iv. 20. Getting ready in a cheerless, shutter-darkened, wrappered-up shop. Ibid. (1906), Days of Comet, I. v. 212. First one and then two other wrappered figures came out of the bungalows to join the first.
1908. Daily Chron., 24 April, 11/3. Girls wanted as book wrapperers (magazine).
