'Sacking' definitions:
Definition of 'sacking'
(from WordNet)
noun
Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks [syn: sacking, bagging]
noun
The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]
Definition of 'Sacking'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Sacking'
From: GCIDE
- Sacking \Sack"ing\, n. [AS. saeccing, from saecc sack, bag.] Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sacking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- assault,
- attack,
- banditry,
- battering,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- butchery,
- depredation,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- direption,
- disorderliness,
- foraging,
- foray,
- forcible seizure,
- freebooting,
- killing,
- laying waste,
- looting,
- marauding,
- massacre,
- obstreperousness,
- onslaught,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- plunder,
- plundering,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ransacking,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- reiving,
- rifling,
- riot,
- rioting,
- sack,
- slaughter,
- sowing with salt,
- spoiling,
- spoliation,
- unruliness,
- violation
Words containing 'Sacking'
- Sack,
- Sacked,
- Sackful,
- Sackfuls,
- 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