noun.
The plundering of a city or town after storming and capture; plunder; pillage: as, the sack of Magdeburg.
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The plunder or booty so obtained; spoil; loot.
To put into sacks or bags, for preservation or transportation: as, to sack grain or salt.
To inclose as in a bag; cover or incase as with a sack.
To heap or pile as by sackfuls.
To give the sack or bag to; discharge or dismiss from office, employment, etc.; also, to reject the suit of: as, to sack a lover.
To plunder or pillage after storming and taking: as, to sack a house or a town.
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A bag; especially, a large bag, usually made of coarse hempen or linen cloth. (See sackcloth.) Sacks are used to contain grain, flour, salt, etc., potatoes and other vegetables, and coal.
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A unit of dry measure.
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Sackcloth; sacking.
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[Also spelled sacque.] A gown of a peculiar form which was first introduced from France into England toward the close of the seventeenth century, and continued to be fashionable throughout the greater part of the eighteenth, century.
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The loose straight back itself. The term seems to have been used in this sense in the eighteenth century.
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[Also spelled sacque.] A kind of jacket or short coat, cut round at the bottom, fitting the body more or less closely, worn at the present day by both men and women: as, a sealskin sack; a sack-coat.
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In anatomy and zoology, a sac or saccule.
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Originally, one of the strong light-colored wines brought to England from the south, as from Spain and the Canary Islands, especially those which were dry and rough.