Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coarse, stout woven cloth, such as burlap or gunny, used for making sacks; sackcloth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of plundering or pillaging, after storming and taking, as a house or a city.
- noun A coarse fabric of hemp or flax, of which sacks, bags, etc., are made: also used for other purposes where strength and durability are required. Compare
sacking-bottomed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable Cheap rough
cloth such as would be used to makebags (sacks ). - noun countable Firing or termination of an employee.
- verb Present participle of
sack .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- noun coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
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Examples
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The tongues of the bells he wrapped in sacking tied with grasses.
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He was wearing a very smooth line in Italian sacking and all that soot wouldn't be doing it any good at all but he didn't seem to care.
The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
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"Durrani was working an American agenda, and his sacking was a step in right direction," said Gen. Aslam Beg, a former chief of army staff.
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Aside from how deeply I dislike the idea of sacking someone for talking about the creative process comics are apparently like sausages and laws: if you like the finished product, you should never find out how they're made, it's of interest to me, of course, because McDuffie directly namechecks Black Canary.
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But with the outrage yielding some of the most violent attacks the Middle East has seen lately (outside of Iraq, that is) - namely the sacking of the Danish consulate in Beirut and of the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus - the protesters have gotten what they clearly are after: a closer look from the Western media.
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Mr. Harkness used a method of breaking horses called sacking out.
Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007
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Mr. Harkness used a method of breaking horses called sacking out.
Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007
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The White House has said the idea of sacking federal prosecutors came from Harriet Miers, who replaced Gonzales as White House counsel after his cabinet promotion.
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Mr. Harkness used a method of breaking horses called sacking out.
Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007
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Mr. Harkness used a method of breaking horses called sacking out.
Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007
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