meaning of sack
1. A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
6. See 2d Sac, 2.
7. Bed.
8. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
9. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
10. The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
11. To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
12. the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter; "the sack of
">Rome"
Related Words
sack | sack coat | sack out | sack race | sack up | sack-winged | sackage | sackbut | sackcloth | sackcloth and ashes | sackclothed | sacked | sacker | sackful | sackfuls | sacking | sackless |
