Sacking

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  • noun. A coarse, stout woven cloth, such as burlap or gunny, used for making sacks; sackcloth.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of plundering or pillaging, after storming and taking, as a house or a city.
  • noun. A coarse fabric of hemp or flax, of which sacks, bags, etc., are made: also used for other purposes where strength and durability are required. Compare sacking-bottomed.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
  • noun. Firing or termination of an employee.
  • verb. Present participle of sack.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
  • noun. coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
    • Word Usage
    "The tongues of the bells he wrapped in sacking tied with grasses."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    attacking  backing  cracking  hacking  jacking  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Glengarry  banquetings  bape  capful  chaise-longue  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    assault  attack  banditry  battering  brigandage  
    verb-stem
    sack  
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