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sack

Definitions


[sak], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a large bag made of a strong material such as hessian, thick paper, or plastic, used for storing and carrying goods

- a woman's short loose unwaisted dress, typically narrowing at the hem, popular especially in the 1950s

- dismissal from employment
(e.g: he got the sack for swearing)

- bed, especially as regarded as a place for sex
(e.g: he stars as a man dumped by his partner for being a bit dull in the sack)

- a base

- an act of tackling of a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage


Phrases:
- a sack of potatoes
- hit the sack

Origin:
Old English sacc, from Latin saccus ‘sack, sackcloth’, from Greek sakkos, of Semitic origin. Sense 1 of the verb dates from the mid 19th century


[sak], (Verb)

Definitions:
- dismiss from employment
(e.g: any official found to be involved would be sacked on the spot)

- tackle (a quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage before they can throw a pass
(e.g: Oregon intercepted five of his passes and sacked him five times)

- put into a sack or sacks
(e.g: a small part of his wheat had been sacked)


Phrases:
- a sack of potatoes
- hit the sack

Origin:
Old English sacc, from Latin saccus ‘sack, sackcloth’, from Greek sakkos, of Semitic origin. Sense 1 of the verb dates from the mid 19th century


[sak], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (chiefly in historical contexts) plunder and destroy (a captured town or building)
(e.g: the fort was rebuilt in AD 158 and was sacked again in AD 197)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century: from French sac, in the phrase mettre à sac ‘put to sack’, on the model of Italian fare il sacco, mettere a sacco, which perhaps originally referred to filling a sack with plunder


[sak], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the pillaging of a town or city
(e.g: the sack of Rome)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century: from French sac, in the phrase mettre à sac ‘put to sack’, on the model of Italian fare il sacco, mettere a sacco, which perhaps originally referred to filling a sack with plunder


[sak], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from Spain and the Canaries
(e.g: the Poet Laureate traditionally gets a ‘butt of sack’, equivalent to roughly 600 bottles of sherry)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 16th century: from the phrase wyne seck, from French vin sec ‘dry wine’




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