Meaning of rug up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To put a rug on a horse
   transitive
2. To put on layers of warm clothes; to wrap up
   Australia, informal, intransitive

Examples

“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.”

“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...”

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