rugging
rugging is the present participle and gerund of rug.
Noun
rugging (usually uncountable, plural ruggings)
- A coarse woollen cloth used for making rugs, blankets etc.
- The manufacture of rugs.
Meaning of rug
Verb
rug (third-person singular simple present rugs, present participle rugging, simple past and past participle rugged)
- To cover with a rug.
- It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]1966, Margaret I. Clarke, Care of the Horse and Pony, page 45
- To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
- “this was a job in the auld times o'rugging and riving through the hale country[…]”1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...
Forms of rugging
| plural | ruggings |
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Words formed from rugging
Phrases with rugging
Questions about rugging
- What does rugging mean?
- Rugging means a coarse woollen cloth used for making rugs, blankets etc.
- What is rugging the present participle and gerund of?
- Rugging is the present participle and gerund of rug.
- What part of speech is rugging?
- Rugging is a noun.
- What is the plural of rugging?
- The plural of rugging is ruggings.
Words near rugging in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rugging (page history and authors); rug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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