Middle English Dictionary Entry
rug n.
Entry Info
Forms | rug n. |
Etymology | ?ON: cp. Swed. dial. rugg, Dan. dial. & Scot. rug fine rain. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
?Light, misty rain.
Associated quotations
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)9652 : There was no buerne on the bent his birre to withstond, But fled hom in fere..Thurgh the rug & the rayn þat raiked aboue.