Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To put a rug on a horse 2 (context intransitive informal Australia English) To put on layers of warm clothes; to wrap up
Usage examples of "rug up".
First the king, then a bunch of flunkies rolling the rug up about two steps behind him, then a new bunch unrolling another rug, then the captain walking along about two steps behind them.
She saw her staggering, heard her coughing, caught a lightning-flash glimpse of her set white face and eyes narrow to slits against the smoke, saw her small body curving back and forth as she swung her rug up and down.
I killed the flight threads, rolled the little rug up, and lashed it in place where two beams met, cutting the cord I'd brought with a sweep of my knife.
Bill said, reaching behind him with one hand and propping the rug up with a raised knee.
They yanked one end of the rug up and Escott's unconscious body rolled out onto the leaves and dirt.
Without a word of protest Angela pulled the rug up around her shoulders.
Thirty minutes before departure a portable check-in counter is set up at the entrance to the boarding platform in the terminal, and two burly uniformed men roll a red rug up to the counter, elbowing aside eagerly waiting passengers.
He placed Zahanine's head and the cleaver on the throw rug with her body, rolled the rug up and tied its ends with string, finally rolled the whole bundle again in a sheet of clear plastic packaging from the new carpeting in his bedroom.
Someone tore the rug up with a ripping sound and plunged with it, upsetting people.