subs. (Rugby School).—A Rugbeian.

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  1892.  Evening Standard, 25 Nov., 4, 5. The controversy was started by the death of one who succumbed to his exertions. “An Old Medical RUG” describes the sufferings he endured.

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  2.  (old).—A sort of drink.

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  1653.  TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), The Certaine Travailes of an Uncertain Journey.

        And (in a word) of all drinks potable
RUG is most puisant, potent, notable.

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  3.  (old).—A tug. Whence as verb. = to pull roughly; TO GET A RUG = to get a share; to get THERE (q.v.).

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  13[?].  York Plays, XXX., 286. No ruthe were it to RUG þe and ryue þe in ropes.

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  1734.  POPE, Satires of Donne, iv. 134. He knows … who GOT his pension RUG.

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  1814.  SCOTT, Waverley, xlii. The gude auld times of RUGGING and riving … are come back again. Ibid. (1824), Redgauntlet, xi. Sir John … voted for the Union, having GOTTEN it was thought, A RUG OF the compensations.

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  ALL RUG, phr. (old cant).—All right; certain (B. E., GROSE).

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  1714.  T. LUCAS, Memoirs of Gamesters, etc., 104. His great Dexterity of making ALL RUGG at Dice, as the Cant is for securing a Die between two Fingers.

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  See BUG and RUGGINS.

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