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Definition of Rugging

1. n. A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.

Definition of Rugging

1. Noun. A coarse woollen cloth used for making rugs, blankets etc. ¹

2. Noun. The manufacture of rugs ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rugging

1. rug [v] - See also: rug

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rugging

Literary usage of Rugging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"rugging AT THE HEART. A phrase used in the Highlands, and explained of hunger. Tent, ruct-en, trahere, ... Causing a rugging or unsteady pulling or tugging; ..."

2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Having been dying at home these two years with the rugging at the heart, ... The craving or rugging at the heart, ie hunger, is a disease but too frequent ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1913)
"It is very curious to observe that the methods of rugging and concentrating the ore at that mine were identical with those of Cornwall in ancient times, ..."

4. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"rugging AT TUB HEART. A phrase used in the Highlands, and explained of hunger. Saxon and Gael. This phrase la common in the Lowlands also. RUG-SAW, i. ..."

5. Memorials of the Lineage, Early Life, Education, and Development of the by George Williamson, Watt Club, Greenock (1856)
"... and Archibald Miller having confessed his rugging of Robert Gardner's hair and casting him down ; and Robert Gardner confessing his rugging the hair of ..."

6. Memorials of the Lineage, Early Life, Education, and Development of the by George Williamson, Watt Club, Greenock (1856)
"... and Archibald Miller having confessed his rugging of Robert Gardner's hair and casting him down; and Robert Gardner confessing his rugging the hair of ..."

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