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One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door. Sterne.

One who uses strap.

One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs. W. Irving.

nt; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.

uter garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.

stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.

Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.

To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. J. Philips.

That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.

explosive, filled with loose powder of the same composition, all inclosed in waterproof wrappers. It is used for mining.

ue to a disease, or produced artificially by spraying; -- said of tobacco used for cigar wrappers.

A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.

ules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.

A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

A woman's loose dressing sack; hence, a loose morning gown or wrapper.

A wrapper. [Obs.] "Wrapped in sindons of linen." Bacon.

, uniformly light-colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively used for cigar wrappers.

A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods. McElrath.

Becoming an understrapper; subservient. [R.] Sterne.

A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.