Sack

[sæk]

Definition

(noun.) the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter; 'the sack of Rome'.

(noun.) a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.

(noun.) a woman's full loose hiplength jacket.

(noun.) any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry).

(noun.) the quantity contained in a sack.

(verb.) put in a sack; 'The grocer sacked the onions'.

(verb.) plunder (a town) after capture; 'the barbarians sacked Rome'.

Typist: Sadie--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

(n.) A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.

(n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.

(n.) Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.

(n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

(n.) See 2d Sac, 2.

(n.) Bed.

(v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.

(v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

(n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.

(v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Bag, pouch.[2]. Spoliation, destruction, desolation, devastation, havoc, waste, ravage.[3]. Sherry, sherry wine.

v. a. Ravage, despoil, devastate, spoil, destroy, plunder, pillage, rifle, ransack, lay waste, take by storm.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Plunder, pillage, ravage, waste, spoil

ANT:Spare, indemnify, protect, preserve

Typist: Shelby

Definition

n. a large bag of coarse cloth for holding grain flour &c.: the contents of a sack: (also Sacque) a woman's gown loose at the back a short coat rounded at the bottom: a measure of varying capacity.—v.t. to put into a sack: (slang) to dismiss.—ns. Sack′-bear′er any bombycid moth of the family Psychid; Sack′cloth cloth for sacks: coarse cloth formerly worn in mourning or penance.—adj. Sack′clothed.—ns. Sacked′-frī′ar a monk who wore a coarse upper garment called a saccus; Sack′er a machine for filling sacks; Sack′-fil′ter a bag-filter; Sack′ful as much as a sack will hold; Sack′-hoist a continuous hoist for raising sacks in warehouses; Sack′ing coarse cloth or canvas for sacks bed-bottoms &c.; Sack′-pack′er in milling a machine for automatically filling a flour-sack; Sack′-race a race in which the legs of competitors are encased in sacks.—Get the sack to be dismissed or rejected; Give the sack to dismiss.

n. the old name of a dry Spanish wine of the sherry genus the favourite drink of Falstaff.—n. Sack′-poss′et posset made with sack.—Burnt sack mulled sack.

v.t. to plunder: to ravage.—n. the plunder or devastation of a town: pillage.—ns. Sack′age; Sack′ing the storming and pillaging of a town.—adj. bent on pillaging.—Sack and fork (Scot.) the power of drowning and hanging.

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