Results for sack

Definitions of sack:

part of speech: verb transitive

To plunder; put into bags.

part of speech: verb transitive

To put into a sack.

part of speech: noun

The plunder or devastation of a town: ravage.

part of speech: noun

A large bag of coarse cloth, for holding grain, flour, etc.: the contents of a sack: a loose upper garment or cloak.

part of speech: noun

A name given to different sorts of dry wine extensively used in England in the 16th century; a variety of sweet wine.

part of speech: noun

A bag or pouch, especially a large coarse bag; a short, loose garment or cloak; a Spanish dry wine; plunder by soldiers of a town taken by storm.

part of speech: verb

To plunder or pillage, as a town or city.

part of speech: noun

A large bag made of coarse cloth or canvas; a measure of 3 bushels; 280 lb. of corn. meal, or flour; 364 lb. of wool in Eng.; a rude coarse cloak of our ancestors; a loose upper garment.

part of speech: noun

The pillage or plunder of a town or city, as by soldiery; devastation.

part of speech: verb transitive

To plunder: to ravage.

Usage examples for sack:

• I immediately seized a large sack of sand, but had not time to throw it over before we were all in the water, gallery and all. "Wonderful Balloon Ascents or, the Conquest of the Skies", Fulgence Marion

• Martin picked them up and dropped them in a sack before we ran through the hollow. "The Metal Monster", A. Merritt

• Beat up sixteen eggs, leaving out three whites, and put to them half a glass of sack and the same of brandy. "The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,", Mary Eaton

• It was already past the middle of the afternoon when those two disappeared again in the cabin with the coffee- sack "The Voodoo Gold Trail", Walter Walden