Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bent on sacking or plundering; pillaging; ravaging.
- noun As much as a sack will hold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Bent on plunder.
- noun As much as a sack will hold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the amount a
sack would contain - adjective obsolete Intent on
plunder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity contained in a sack
Etymologies
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Examples
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And one more southern rock choice in the soundtrack, I was going to go home and invent a time machine, go back in time, and sneak a sackful of rabid weasels onto Skynyrd's plane so I'd know that during the entire crash, they were ALSO being tormented by the weasel bites.
Archive 2005-04-03 Rogers 2005
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Bobby Moore, leader of the celebrated band who also died tragically early, had his sackful of memories sold by his first wife, Tina, to his beloved West Ham.
Tears for souvenirs as Best and Stiles memorabilia go up for auction Frank Keating 2010
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He's left the museum, started his own company, and is making money by the sackful.
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If I was down to one rifle it would be due to a situation beyond my control so I would hang onto my Ruger 10/22 plus a sackful of 30 shot magazines to go with several bricks of ammo.
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Money could be made out of them, and he would wait and take a sackful of it into the South Seas.
Chapter 42 2010
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Nelson Mandela must occasionally wonder if his real birthplace is not actually somewhere in west central Scotland as the postman brings the puzzled old freedom fighter yet another sackful of certificates, baubles and doctorates from right honourable and worshipful baillies, provosts and presiding officers.
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Saxon got a sackful of the fish, and was compelled to make two trips in order to carry them home, where she salted them down in a wooden washtubs.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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If I buy a sackful of potatoes from a farmer, that may well incentivize him to plant some more, especially if I've made a standing offer to pay him for a new sack (like the copyright law does).
Lessig on Copyright, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Five minutes into Double Agent – the Eddie Chapman Story BBC2 our bespectacled presenter Ben McIntyre has leapt from the cargo door of a Nazi plane, blown open a locked safe and done a runner in the London underground clutching a sackful of stolen banknotes.
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Why should he grow more when he can just sell me the old sackful over and over again?
Lessig on Copyright, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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