[f. prec. sb.] To cover with, or as with, an apron.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., III. iv. 289. I mean to apron it and towel it.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, III. xvi. 230. A thicket of dwarf oak, and the never-absent bramble, aproned the yellow dugs of shale with brown.