rug up

verb — 2 senses

rug up

verb

1

To 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

Australia, Informal To 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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