Definition of Sack

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Definition of Sack

Sack

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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.

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.

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.

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

See 2d Sac, 2.

Bed.

To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.

To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

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

To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

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Sack Quotations

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.
Muddy Waters

Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.
Paul Gascoigne

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.
Portia de Rossi

I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.
Pia Zadora

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
Eddie Campbell

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
Luigi Pirandello

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.
David Prowse

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
Noel Redding

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!
Robert McCloskey

I'm certainly no victim in this. I don't want to come off as a sad sack; I pissed a lot of people off.
Harry Anderson

Sack Translations

sack in Afrikaans is tas, ontslaan
sack in Danish is afskedige, taske
sack in Dutch is ontslaan, ontzetten, royeren
sack in Italian is licenziare, buttare fuori, sacco
sack in Norwegian is sekk, veske
sack in Spanish is bolso, despedir, saco

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