subs. (old).—An outcast: also RUG-GOWN. Whence RUG-GOWNED = meanly; RUG-HEADED = shock-headed.

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  1597.  SHAKESPEARE, Richard II., ii. 1, 156. We must supplant these rough RUG-HEADED kerns.

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  1622.  FLETCHER and MASSINGER, The Prophetess, ii. 2.

          First Guard.  I had rather meet
An enemy in the field, than stand thus nodding
Like to a RUG-GOWN’D watchman.

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  1654.  Witt’s Recreations. A RUDG-GOWNS ribs are good to spur a horse.

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