Meaning of sack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
   countable, dated, uncountable
2. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
3. Dated form of sac (“pouch in a plant or animal”).
   alt-of, dated
4. Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
   alt-of, alternative
5. To sleep.
6. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
7. To rob (a town, for example) of goods or valuables, especially after capture.
8. The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
   uncountable
9. The looting or pillaging of a captured city or town.
10. Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
    uncountable
11. Any of various light, dry, strong wines from Spain and the Canary Islands, imported to England in the 1500s and 1600s.
12. A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
13. a strong white wine formerly imported by England from Spain and the Canary Islands.
14. One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
15. The tackle of a quarterback before he can pass the ball.
16. Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
    informal
17. Slang. The act of dismissing or the condition of being dismissed from employment:discharge, dismissal, termination.
18. Bed.
    US, colloquial, figuratively, literally
19. A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.
    dated
20. Slang. To end the employment or service of:cashier, discharge, dismiss, drop, release, terminate.
21. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
    dated
22. To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war:depredate, despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, rape, ravage, spoliate, strip.
23. The scrotum.
    slang, vulgar
24. a large bag of coarse cloth, strong paper or plastic. The potatoes were put into sacks. sak كيس كَبير чувал sacola pytel der Sack sæk σάκος, τσουβάλιsaco (suur) kott كيسه säkki sacשק बोरा, बोरी vreća, kesa zsák karung poki sacco 大袋 부대 maišas maiss pundi; kantung zaksekk; poseworek بوجی saco sac мешок vrece vreča vreća säck กระสอบ çuval, torba 寬口大粗布袋，硬紙袋或塑膠袋 мішок, лантух بوری bao tải 麻袋，硬纸袋
25. Any disposable bag.

Equivalents

Examples

“The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — .”

“Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.”

“Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.”

“the sack of Rome”

“He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.”

“give (someone) the sack”

“get the sack”

“The boss is gonna give her the sack today.”

“He got the sack for being late all the time.”

“A climate researcher has been threatened with the sack by his employer after refusing to fly back to Germany at short notice after finishing fieldwork on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands archipelago.”

“hit the sack”

“in the sack”

“Molly, therefore, having dressed herself out in this sack, with a new laced cap, and some other ornaments which Tom had given her, repairs to church with her fan in her hand the very next Sunday.”

“Her Dress, too, was of the same cast, a thin muslin short sacque and Coat lined throughout with Pink, – a modesty bit – and something of a very short cloak half concealed about half of her old wrinkled Neck […].”

“This lady's interesting figure, on her wedding-day, was attired in a sacque and petticoat of the most expensive brocaded white silk, resembling net-work, enriched with small flowers […].”

“He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack.”

“Wilt pleaſe your Lord drink a cup of ſacke? […] I am Christophero Sly, call not mee Honour nor Lordship: I ne're drank ſacke in my life: […]”

“Giue me a Cup of Sacke, Rogue. Is there no Vertue extant?”

“How cam'ſt thou hither? / Sweare by this Bottle how thou cam'ſt hither: I eſcap'd / vpon a But of Sacke, which the Saylors heaued o'reboord, by this Bottle which I made of the barke of a Tree, with mine owne hands, since I was caſt a'ſhore.”

“The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.”

“"He's got a venison pastry and a flagon of sack in that cupboard behind him."”

“Sometimes fishes are born that have rudimentary yolk sacks. Such young are born prematurely.”

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