overwrapping

Verb

overwrap (third-person singular simple present overwraps, present participle overwrapping, simple past and past participle overwrapped)

1. (transitive) To wrap in a secondary wrapper.
   • Each unit load can also be overwrapped completely in multibags, without any of the usual back-breaking work of manually transferring and restacking, and fitting slings or nets when the load is inverted.1985, Wood Southern Africa, volume 11, page 48
2. To wrap such that the wrapping goes beyond the edge.
   • These flaws can include a reed being overwrapped (wrapped past the end of the staple), underwrapped (not wrapped the full length of the staple), or slipped incorrectly (the blades of cane not meeting properly especially if one blade is completely inside the other blade); the cane being crooked on...2013, Jacqueline Leclair, Oboe Secrets, →ISBN
3. To provide with too many wrappings.
   • Personally, we feel that overwrapping is more harmful than underwrapping in measles as well as in many other conditions.1935, The Hahnemannian Monthly - Volume 70, page 386

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