Sack

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see 2d Sac, 2.

II. Sack ·noun Bed.

III. Sack ·noun A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

IV. Sack ·vt To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

V. Sack ·vt To put in a sack; to Bag; as, to sack corn.

VI. Sack ·noun A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

VII. Sack ·noun The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.

VIII. Sack ·vt To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to Devastate; to Ravage.

IX. Sack ·noun 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.

X. Sack ·noun 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.

XI. Sack ·noun 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.

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