Annotations - William Dean Howells, "Turkeys Turning the Tables" (1892)

dressed

To "dress" a turkey or other poultry is to remove the feathers, head, and entrails, heart, and lungs of the bird in preparation to be cooked.

Later in the narrative, the "other little girl" is "dressed" by First Premium, who claps his wings and then she finds herself "tied round and round with ribbons, so she couldn't move hand or foot" (37).