'Sack' definitions:
Definition of 'sack'
(from WordNet)
noun
A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases [syn: sack, poke, paper bag, carrier bag]
noun
noun
The quantity contained in a sack [syn: sack, sackful]
noun
Any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
noun
A woman's full loose hiplength jacket [syn: sack, sacque]
noun
A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily [syn: hammock, sack]
noun
A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist [syn: chemise, sack, shift]
noun
The plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter; "the sack of Rome"
noun
The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]
verb
Plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome" [syn: sack, plunder]
verb
Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire]
verb
verb
Put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions"
Definition of 'Sack'
From: GCIDE
- Sack \Sack\, n. [OE. sak, sek, AS. sacc, saecc, 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Biol.) See 2d Sac, 2. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- Sack bearer (Zool.). 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]
Definition of 'Sack'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Sack'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Sack posset, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sack'
From: GCIDE
- Sack \Sack\, v. t.
- 1. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. [1913 Webster]
- Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson. --L. Wallace. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sack'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sack'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquire,
- assault,
- attack,
- ax,
- bag,
- balloon,
- banditry,
- barbarize,
- barrel,
- basket,
- batter,
- be seized of,
- bed,
- bedstead,
- bladder,
- boot,
- boot out,
- bottle,
- bounce,
- box,
- box up,
- break,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- brutalize,
- bump,
- bunk,
- burden,
- burn,
- bust,
- butcher,
- can,
- capsule,
- capture,
- carry on,
- carton,
- case,
- cashier,
- cashiering,
- cask,
- catch,
- chuck,
- come by,
- come in for,
- come into,
- conge,
- container,
- contract,
- corral,
- couch,
- crate,
- defrock,
- degrade,
- demote,
- deplume,
- deposal,
- depose,
- depredate,
- depredation,
- deprive,
- derive,
- desecrate,
- desolate,
- despoil,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destroy,
- devastate,
- devour,
- direption,
- disbar,
- discharge,
- disemploy,
- disemployment,
- dismiss,
- dismissal,
- displace,
- displacing,
- displume,
- doss,
- drag down,
- draw,
- drop,
- drum out,
- drumming out,
- earn,
- encase,
- encyst,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- entangle,
- enter into possession,
- entrap,
- expel,
- fill,
- fire,
- firing,
- fleece,
- fob,
- forage,
- foraging,
- foray,
- forced separation,
- foul,
- freeboot,
- freebooting,
- freight,
- furlough,
- furloughing,
- gain,
- get,
- give the ax,
- give the gate,
- go on,
- gurney,
- gut,
- hammer,
- hamper,
- harpoon,
- harvest,
- heap,
- heap up,
- hit the hay,
- hit the sack,
- hook,
- jar,
- kick,
- kick out,
- kick upstairs,
- kip,
- kip down,
- lade,
- land,
- lasso,
- lay off,
- lay waste,
- layoff,
- let go,
- let out,
- litter,
- load,
- loot,
- looting,
- make,
- make redundant,
- maraud,
- marauding,
- mass,
- maul,
- mesh,
- mug,
- nail,
- net,
- noose,
- obtain,
- pack,
- pack away,
- package,
- parcel,
- pension off,
- pile,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- pink slip,
- plunder,
- plundering,
- pocket,
- poke,
- pot,
- pouch,
- prey on,
- procure,
- pull down,
- rage,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- ransack,
- ransacking,
- rant,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- rave,
- raven,
- ravish,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- read out of,
- reap,
- reive,
- reiving,
- release,
- removal,
- remove,
- replace,
- retire,
- retirement,
- rifle,
- rifling,
- riot,
- roar,
- rope,
- ruin,
- sac,
- sack out,
- sacking,
- savage,
- score,
- secure,
- send packing,
- separate forcibly,
- ship,
- slaughter,
- snag,
- snare,
- sniggle,
- sofa,
- sow chaos,
- spear,
- spoil,
- spoiling,
- spoliate,
- spoliation,
- stack,
- store,
- storm,
- stow,
- stretcher,
- strip,
- superannuate,
- surplus,
- surplusing,
- suspend,
- suspension,
- sweep,
- take,
- tangle,
- tangle up with,
- tank,
- tear,
- tear around,
- terminate,
- terrorize,
- the ax,
- the boot,
- the bounce,
- the gate,
- the hay,
- the sack,
- ticket,
- tin,
- trap,
- turn in,
- turn off,
- turn out,
- unfrock,
- vandalize,
- violate,
- walking papers,
- waste,
- win,
- wreck
Words containing 'Sack'
- Sacked,
- Sackful,
- Sackfuls,
- Sacking,
- sack out,
- sack up,
- Gunny sack,
- Sack bearer,
- Sack posset,
- Sack tree,
- To give the sack,
- To give the sack to,
- To hit the sack,
- Yolk sack,
- crocus sack,
- croker sack,
- dressing sack,
- get the sack,
- give the sack,
- grass sack,
- hit the sack,
- sack coat,
- sack race,
- sad sack,
- Halter-sack,
- Sack-winged,
- despoiled pillaged raped ravaged sacked