sack
/sæk/ noun C1- A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
- The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds). · The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — .
- The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city. · the sack of Rome
- Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
- One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base. · He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.
- Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position. · give (someone) the sack· get the sack
- Bed. · hit the sack· in the sack
Plural sacks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He, no doubt, thought that prisoners who died in the Château d’If were interred in an ordinary burial-ground, and he conveyed the dead man into his own cell, took his place in the sack in which they had sewed up the corpse, and awaited the moment of interment.”
Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face.
His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack.
“Yes,” said the Horse; “if any remains out of what I am now eating I will give it you for the sake of my own superior dignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in the evening, I will give you a little sack full of barley.” The Ass replied, “Thank you.
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