Definitions for the word "Sack" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
See 2d Sac, 2.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Bed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. t.
To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
1 a large strong bag for storage or conveyance. B quantity contained in a sack. 2 (prec. By the) colloq. Dismissal from employment. 3 (prec. By the) us slang bed. v. 1 put into a sack or sacks. 2 colloq. Dismiss from employment. [latin saccus]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. v.
Plunder and destroy (a captured town etc.). n. Such sacking. [french mettre à sac put in a sack]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
14. n.
Hist. White wine from spain and the canaries. [french vin sec dry wine]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
15. slang
to “get the SACK,” to be discharged by an employer. Varied in
the North of England to “get the BAG.” In London it is sometimes spoken
of as “getting the EMPTY.” It is common now to speak of “getting the
BULLET,” an evident play on the word discharge.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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