rug up

verb

To put a rug on a horse

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Meanings

verbrug up (third-person singular simple present rugs up, present participle rugging up, simple past and past participle rugged up)

present singular third person rugs up · participle present rugging up · participle past rugged up · past rugged up

  1. transitiveTo put a rug on a horse

    The mare was naturally very weak and almost in a state of collapse, so we gave her half a pint of neat whisky, rugged her up, and rubbed her all over with embrocation.

    1913, VM/SAC, Veterinary Medicine & Small Animal Clinician Volume 8, page 677
  2. AustraliainformalintransitiveTo put on layers of warm clothes; to wrap up

    To us, a rainy day may mean that we have to rug up and stay inside out of the elements, but the coming of a storm or the rising swell will find a mulloway that lives and feeds along the beaches, waiting around a river entrance for the mullet...

    2005, Gary Brown, Beach and Rock Fishing
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Chicago

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