noun

• (UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
  "They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time."
• (historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
  "They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs."
• (historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.
• (obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug.

verb

• (transitive) 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 […]"
• (Scotland, archaic) 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[…]”"

noun

• (slang) short form of Rugbeian