A loose dress or gown.
Her dress was a blue-striped linen short-gown, wrapper, or long-short, a coarse petticoat, checked apron, &c.--Margaret, p. 14.
·noun One who, or that which, wraps. II. Wrapper ·noun That in which anything is wrapped, or inclos...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
any thing large ; a thumper. C. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose