Sack

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) 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).
 * 3) * The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — McElrath.
 * 4) * 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 27, page 202
 * Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
 * 1) * 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, page 209
 * Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
 * 1)  The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
 * The sack of Rome.
 * 1)  Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
 * 2)  A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense3 below.
 * 3)  One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
 * He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.
 * 1)  Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack.  See verb sense4 below.
 * The boss is gonna give her the sack today.
 * He got the sack for being late all the time.
 * 1)  Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
 * 2)  (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.
 * 3) * 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV, chapter vii, Google Books
 * Molly, therefore, having dressed herself out in this sack, with a new laced cap, and some other ornaments which Tom had given her, repairs to church with her fan in her hand the very next Sunday.
 * 1)  The scrotum.
 * He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack.

Synonyms

 * bag, tote, poke
 * the axe, pink slip, the boot, the chop, the elbow, one's cards, the old heave-ho
 * hay, rack
 * ballsack, ball sack, nutsack

Hyponyms

 * bindle

Derived terms

 * back, crack and sack
 * ballsack, ball sack
 * bivouac sack
 * cat in the sack
 * dub sack
 * get the sack, give the sack


 * gunny sack, gunnysack
 * hacky sack, hackysack
 * Hacky-Sack, hackeysack,
 * hit the sack
 * in the sack
 * nutsack


 * sackcloth
 * sack race
 * sackful
 * sacking (n.)
 * sad sack

Related terms

 * sac
 * sachet
 * satchel


 * haversack
 * knapsack
 * rucksack

Verb

 * 1) To put in a sack or sacks.
 * Help me sack the groceries.
 * 1) * 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter VII,
 * The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag
 * 1) To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
 * The barbarians sacked Rome.
 * 1) * 1898, Homer, translated by Samuel Butler, The Iliad, Book IX,
 * It [a lyre] was part of the spoils which he had taken when he sacked the city of Eetion
 * 1)  To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass.
 * 2) * 1995, John Crumpacker and Gwen Knapp, "Sack-happy defensive line stuns Dolphins", SFGate.com, November 21,
 * On third down, the rejuvenated Rickey Jackson stormed in over All-Pro left tackle Richmond Webb to sack Marino yet again for a 2-yard loss.
 * 1)  To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
 * He was sacked last September.
 * 1) * 1999, "Russian media mogul dismisses Yeltsin's bid to sack him", CNN.com, March 5,
 * Boris Berezovsky on Friday dismissed President Boris Yeltsin's move to sack him from his post as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States,
 * 1)  In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
 * The kids all sacked out before 9:00 on New Year’s Eve.

Synonyms

 * loot, ransack
 * can, dismiss, fire, lay off, let go, terminate, make redundant, give the axe, give the boot, give (someone) their cards, give the chop, give the elbow, give the old heave-ho, See also: Thesaurus:lay off
 * rack

Derived terms

 * sackable
 * sacker
 * sack out

Noun

 * 1)  A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
 * Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack? ...I ne'er drank sack in my life...
 * Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack...let a cup of sack be my poison...Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it?
 * Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack...let a cup of sack be my poison...Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it?
 * Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack...let a cup of sack be my poison...Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it?

Derived terms

 * sack-whey

Verbs for Sack
bear—; convey in—; dip into—; emerge from—; forage with—; hoist—; mend—; plunge into—; transport in—; twill—; weave—; —yields.

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

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/s{k/}}
 * Homophones: sac, SAC
 * Homophones: sac, SAC
 * Homophones: sac, SAC

Etymology 1
sak 'bag, sackcloth', from sacc: 'bag', sæcc: 'sackcloth', from  'sack' (compare Dutch zak:, German Sack:, Swedish säkk:), from  saccus: 'large bag', from  σάκκος: 'bag of coarse cloth', from  (compare  שק: 'sack, sackcloth',  𒆭𒊓:), from Ancient  s3q 'sack'.
 * “Pillage” senses from the use of sacks in carrying off plunder. From sac:, shortened from the phrase mettre à sac (“put it in a bag”), a military command to pillage; also parallel meaning with  sacco: <  sacco:. From  saccare: < saccus:. See also ransack:. American football “tackle” sense from this “plunder, conquer” root.
 * “Removal from employment” senses attested since 1825; the original formula was “to give (someone) the sack”, likely from the notion of a worker going off with his tools in a sack, or being given such a sack for his personal belongings as part of an expedient severance. Idiom exists earlier in (on luy a donné son sac, 17c.) and  (iemand den zak geven). English verb in this sense recorded from 1841. Current verb, to sack (“to fire”) carries influence from the forceful nature of “plunder, tackle” verb senses.
 * Slang meaning “bunk, bed” is attested since 1825, originally nautical, likely in reference to sleeping bags. The verb meaning “go to bed” is recorded from 1946.

Etymology 2
From earlier (wyne:) seck: < (vin:) sec: <  siccus:

Noun

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 * Arabic: كيس
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 * Croatian: vreća
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 * Georgian: ტომარა,
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 * Greek: σάκκος
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 * Japanese: 袋
 * Korean: 자루
 * Latin: saccus, culeus
 * Latvian: maiss
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 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: poca, baga, màileid
 * Serbian: врећа
 * Slovak: vrece
 * Slovene: torba, bisaga
 * Spanish: ,
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 * Ukrainian: мішок


 * Danish: sækfuld
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 * Latvian: maiss
 * Scottish Gaelic: poca, baga, màileid


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 * Georgian: ნაძარცვი
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 * Georgian: დათხოვნა, განთავისუფლება
 * Norwegian: sparken


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 * Catalan: acomiadar, destituir, despedir
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 * Finnish: lyödä munille


 * : sparke, kicke


 * : sparka, kicka

Anagrams

 * acks
 * cask