meaning of sack

1. A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
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.
5.
A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
6.
See 2d Sac, 2.
7.
Bed.
8.
To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
9.
To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
10.
The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
11.
To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
12.
the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter; "the sack of ">Rome"


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