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rug: see carpet carpet or rug, thick fabric, usually woolen (but often synthetic), commonly used today as a floor covering.

Carpet Types and Modern Manufactures


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rug
1. a floor covering, smaller than a carpet and made of thick wool or of other material, such as an animal skin
2. Chiefly Brit a blanket, esp one used as a wrap or lap robe for travellers


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He even pulled the rug from under his own effort by reneging on a promise to donate $2 million to himself.
I'd supported Nader in 2000, and I'd never quite bought the blather that he had pulled the rug from under Gore, but this time .
2, 1995-- Real estate lending in California dropped by more than a third last year as rising mortgage interest rates pulled the rug from under a booming refinance industry, a real estate information service reported.
 
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