underwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underwraps
form: underwrapping
form: underwrapped
form: underwrapped
Etymology: From under- + wrap.
Senses: examples: text: To make the rod “look better,” he underwrapped all the guides and finished them off with fancy, spiral windings and 3 heavy coats of varnish.
ref: 1956, Florida Wildlife - Volumes 10-11, page 78:
text: When underwrapping, always make the underwrap a lighter color thread than the guide wrapping, since a dark underwrap could show through a lighter overwrap.
ref: 1984, Mark Thiffault, Fishermen's digest, →ISBN, page 120:
text: The technique of underwrapping guides probably originated with heavier saltwater rods.
ref: 2013, Dale P. Clemens, Advanced Custom Rod Building, →ISBN:
glosses: To provide with an underwrap.
examples: text: Sharp or irregular shaped parts should be underwrapped with a grade A material to cushion against puncture.
ref: 1945, William C Farmer, Ordnance Field Guide: Restricted - Volume 3, page 508:
text: Wrappings are underwrapped and overwrapped to a mirror-like finish.
ref: 1955, The Fisherman - Volume 6, page 111:
text: Papers coming off the press are automatically folded and put on six Newsveyor conveyors that deliver papers to the mailroom to be stacked in bundles of 30 to 40 papers, underwrapped, tied and fed into a rapid-paced News-sort system.
ref: 1979, American Printer and Lithographer - Volume 184, page 32:
glosses: To provide with a wrapping that will subsequently be covered or wrapped by something else.
examples: text: In M. dekayi the under face of suspensorium is underwrapped by prootic, by the exoccipital in missuriensis.
ref: 1869, Edward Drinker Cope, Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America:
text: Full spinal flexion results; the perineum is brought into a downward facing position underwrapped by the tail.
ref: 1961, Behavior - Volumes 18-19, page 12:
text: A variation of this is the well-known Matuka style, where the wing is secured to the shank, eliminating the possibility of the rear of the wing underwrapping the hook.
ref: 1992, Lefty Kreh, Advanced Fly Fishing Techniques:
glosses: To wrap the underside of something.
examples: text: The rails are formed at their ends to underwrap each other, as (f f.)
ref: 1833, Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine, page 85:
text: Floor joists at points of entry into brickwork are underwrapped giving 100 per cent protection.
ref: 1967, The Municipal Year Book and Public Services Directory, page 47:
text: ... sequence an angled article support, a wrapping material feed slot, a hot wire cutter and a pedestal comprising the steps of placing an article to be wrapped on the angled support with its two opposite sides extending laterally beyond said support, grasping the comers of the free end of a roll of soft film and pulling the strip of soft film over the article far enough for the free end to underwrap the article;
ref: 1968, The Canadian Patent Office Record:
glosses: To underlap.
examples: text: 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 the staple; the cane leaning to the side; or the blank being the wrong length. Cane is expensive and your time is valuable.
ref: 2013, Jacqueline Leclair, Oboe Secrets, →ISBN:
glosses: To wrap such that the wrapping does not go all the way to the edge.
examples: text: Personally, we feel that overwrapping is more harmful than underwrapping in measles as well as in many other conditions.
ref: 1935, The Hahnemannian Monthly - Volume 70, page 386:
glosses: To provide with insufficient wrappings.