Sack \Sack\, n. [OE. sak, sek, AS. sacc, s[ae]cc, L. saccus, Gr. sa`kkos from Heb. sak; cf. F. sac, from the Latin. Cf. {Sac}, {Satchel}, {Sack} to plunder.] 1. 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.
2. 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. --McElrath.
3. [Perhaps a different word.] 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. [Written also {sacque}.]
4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
5. (Biol.) See 2d {Sac}, 2.
6. Bed. [Colloq.]
{Sack bearer} (Zo["o]l.). See {Basket worm}, under {Basket}.
{Sack tree} (Bot.), an East Indian tree ({Antiaris saccidora}) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom.
{To give the sack to} or {get the sack}, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. [Slang]
{To hit the sack}, to go to bed. [Slang] [1913 Webster +PJC]
Sack \Sack\ (s[a^]k), n. [OE. seck, F. sec dry (cf. Sp. seco, It. secco), from L. siccus dry, harsh; perhaps akin to Gr. 'ischno`s, Skr. sikata sand, Ir. sesc dry, W. hysp. Cf. {Desiccate}.] A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines. ``Sherris sack.'' --Shak.
{Sack posset}, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients.
Sack \Sack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sacked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sacking}.] [See {Sack} pillage.] To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy. --Addison.
Sack \Sack\, v. t. 1. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson. --L. Wallace.
2. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. [Colloq.]
Sack \Sack\, n. [F. sac plunder, pillage, originally, a pack, packet, booty packed up, fr. L. saccus. See {Sack} a bag.] The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
The town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age. --Prescott.
Like those attacks, the sack of Bagdad, Mexico, failed to crush the town.
The couple sang, danced and told riddles with the little girl. Ded Moroz then opened his sack and pulled out a huge teddy bear, which Olga's father had handed him secretly beforehand.
After the obligatory rocky start to their relationship, Van Damme and Arquette soon fall into the sack and then join forces to see off the bad guys. Nowhere to Run is the latest step in the effort to domesticate the Belgian bruiser.
A 7-pound baby boy was found in a paper bag in a hospital parking lot by a driver who had steered around the sack.
That means, for example, making it far easier to sack workers, many of whom have in effect a job for life.
This time the charge will be that he is not in command of his own cabinet, more specifically that he is afraid to sack his chancellor. Mr Major understands the predicament well.
When Ms. Rodas first bounced it around, the sack was made of white muslin.
Every day 12-year-old Shashi Bushan Das starts out at dawn with a burlap sack over his bony shoulder.
In Kabul, prices of flour went back up to $4 for a 15-pound sack, after falling to $3.50 last week when the road was open.
The former rides around in a pickup drinking beer and puts his empties in a sack; the latter rides around in a pickup drinking beer and tossing his empties out the window.
He father ran National Trades Day Inc., a profitable small business that specialized in arranging promotional gimmicks like sack races and pie-eating contests for local merchants.
They were then given an extremely relaxed regulatory regime as privatised monopolies. The directors were given a wodge of share options and the ability to sack people, so they got large increases in their share prices.
Pack a paper sack for your trash and put it all in the garbage can.
This woman's sack had sprung a leak and rice was trickling out."
Individuals are entitled to keep every sixth sack of potatoes they dig, or pay about 20 cents per pound for their entire bounty.
Most of those dismissed were working on the English side of the bridge, and about 100 on the Welsh side. Mr Roger Berry, a local Labour MP, said that to sack people for a 24-hour strike was 'frankly outrageous'.
Yet all the pressures point towards increasingly costly government: under the constitution, Mandela cannot sack white civil servants, but he must promote blacks - leading to an inevitable expansion.
One tale recounts how a student once removed the corpse while Harris was in the saloon and climbed in the sack.
A few blue-and-white sack dresses from Tunisia hung in a clothing store.
On a three-year rolling contract, he would cost Pounds 1m to sack.
However, Ladner said Mississippi oysters are in demand because a sack of them produces twice as much meat as a sack of any other kind.
However, Ladner said Mississippi oysters are in demand because a sack of them produces twice as much meat as a sack of any other kind.
Foreseeing these increases, looters tried to sack stores in one of Lima's poorer districts on Tuesday afternoon.
I want to categorically refute the suggestion that I want a general election or am attempting to bring one about.' The PDs have called upon Mr Reynolds either to withdraw the accusation or to sack Mr O'Malley.
He turned New York City political power William Marcy "Boss" Tweed into a metaphor for corruption, often depicting him as a bulging sack of money.
Other European households could soon be treated to the sight of 'Hugo the bin' and 'Egon the sack', two comic characters used on German children's television to publicise the green dot.
Mr. Gibbons is pictured with a red phone to his ear, underlining the sack's "call us with your comments" theme.
Bruce A. Young, Oliver Platt and particularly David Pierce as the sad sack alcoholic offer some strong support.
The court jester at the Royal Britain Exhibition made unkind jokes about the royal family and the commercial museum's managers, not amused, told him to stop or get the sack.
PICKETS demonstrated last night outside the Dundee plant of Timex Electronics, the US-owned multinational, to protest at the company's decision to sack all its 320 production workers and replace them with a new labour force.