▪ I. ˈrugging, n.
[f. rug n.2]
(See quot. 1858.)
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Rugging, a coarse wrapping or blanket cloth. 1939 Country Life 11 Feb. p. xxxiii/2 (Advt.), Cheaper quality in rugging, 27/6, 25/- & 20/-. 1963 E. H. Edwards Saddlery xx. 149 The most simple of all is the Yorkshire boot, which consists of an oblong of stout rugging with a tape sewn along the centre. |
▪ II. ˈrugging, vbl. n.
[f. rug v.1]
Pulling, tugging; seizing for oneself.
| a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 273 Thair was nathing bot rwgging and raveing of the puir laubouraris. 1581 N. Burne in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 167 Be rugging doun of kirkis, be spuleying of Abbayis. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 187 Trubling the west seyes in thift, ruging, and reiueng. 1644 Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) II. 232 We have strange rugging with the Independents. 1814 Scott Wav. xlii, The gude auld times of rugging and riving..are come back again. 1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tract. Secession 51 In the midst of this awful rugging and riving [etc.]. |
| attrib. 1836 W. Arnot Autobiog. (1877) 107, I do feel a tearing, rugging process going on. |
b. fig. (See quot.)
| 1814 Saxon & Gael I. 153 The craving or rugging at the heart, i.e., hunger, is a disease but too frequent among the Highlanders. |