Definition of "rug"

rug

/ɹʌɡ/

noun
plural rugs
1. A partial covering for a floor.
2. (UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
  Quotations
  They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
  1855, William Howitt, A Boy′s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert′s Note-Book, page 254
  Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.
  1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia, page 2297
  My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with.″
  1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181
  She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.
  1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books
  He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.
  1997, Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes, page 22
3. (historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
  Quotations
  They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.
  1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Irelande […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne
4. (historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.
5. (obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug.
6. A cloth covering for a horse.
7. (obsolete, rare) A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops.
8. (slang) The female pubic hair.
9. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
10. (slang) A wig; a hairpiece.
11. (colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair.
12. (US, slang, ethnic slur) Short for rughead.
  Quotations
  We're the motherfuckers be fightin' when the rugs [black prisoners] start wasting people around here.
  1980, John Irwin, Prisons in Turmoil, page 212
verb
third-person singular simple present rugs, present participle rugging, simple past and past participle rugged
1. (transitive) To cover with a rug.
  Quotations
  It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]
  1966, Margaret I. Clarke, Care of the Horse and Pony, page 45
2. (Scotland, archaic) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
  Quotations
  “this was a job in the auld times o'rugging and riving through the hale country […] ”
  1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
adjective
comparative more rug, superlative most rug
1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) snug; cosy

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