verb
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(games) To sacrifice.
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I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.
verb
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To put in a sack or sacks.
example
Help me sack the groceries.
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To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
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To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
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The barbarians sacked Rome.
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To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
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To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
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He was sacked last September.
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In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
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The kids all sacked out before 9:00 on New Year’s Eve.
noun
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Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
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The farmer grabbed a handful of sacking and rubbed down the cow.
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Firing or termination of an employee.
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He followed his sacking with a good drink.
Examples of sacking in a Sentence
Everything, from sacking to jewelry, is sold in them.
Protect from strong sunlight by covering with sacking or similar material.
Here also Owen Glendower unfurled the banner of Welsh independence; from here, in 1401, he harassed the country, sacking Montgomery, burningWelshpool, and destroying Cwm Hir (long "combe," or valley) abbey, of which some columns are said to be now in Llanidloes old church..
He cut headline taxes and raised public expenditure while sacking civil servants and further increasing stealth taxes.
These strips were pulled through another recycled item, old potato burlap sacking.
The fourth crusade in 1204 placed great shame on western Christianity with its wanton sacking of Constantinople.
Light damp bonfires with dry kindling such as newspaper, sacking, cardboard and empty wooden boxes or with domestic lighters.
Does this refer to his habit of sacking quarterbacks who try to get a rise out of him?
All these suggestions of a sacking for Gallas never seem to be backed-up by a proposed stand-in.
Takeo escaped the sacking of his village by the merest wisp of good fortune.
However, tho sailcloth manufacturers are not shown to be in Yeovil, rope and twine, and sack and sacking manufacturers are included.
These religious sectaries attacked and plundered all Mussulmans not conforming to their peculiar tenets; they overran Kerbela and the Hejaz, sacking the holy cities and closing the pilgrim routes.
In 1080 the Almoravide sovereign Yusef ibn Tashfin, after besieging and sacking Agadir, built a new town on the site of his camp. The new town, called Tagrart, became the commercial quarter, whilst Agadir remained the royal residence.
Lysander invaded Boeotia from the west, receiving the submission of Orchomenus and sacking Lebadea, but the enemy intercepted his despatch to Pausanias, who had meanwhile entered Boeotia from the south, containing plans for a joint attack upon Haliartus.
His first authentic act is the storm and sacking of Peterborough in 1070, in company with outlaws and Danish invaders.
A treaty was signed with the Scottish estates; but it was torn up a few months later under the influence of Beaton and the queen-dowager Mary of Guise, and Hertford was sent in 1544 to punish this breach of promise by sacking Edinburgh.
At once the sacking of religious houses in Dundee, Lindores and Arbroath had begun; the hour of religious revolution had struck; but the godly were put down when the regent and the cardinal were so suddenly reconciled.
With the advance of commerce it is more and more required for its best-known use, as sacking for produce.
The leading industries are the making of agricultural implements, manufactures of woollens and sacking, brewing, tanning and coachbuilding, besides corn mills and engineering works.
Lane, with an undisciplined brigade, had crossed the border, sacking, burning and killing in his progress, Missouri " bushrangers " retaliated in kind.
But William C. Quantrell, after sacking various small Kansas towns along the Missouri river (1862-63), in August 1863 took Lawrence (q.v.) and put it mercilessly to fire and sword - the most ghastly episode in border history.
The native manufactures include tanned leather, saddles, shoes, ponchos, woollen and cotton cloth, fibre sandals and sacking, blankets, coarse matting and coarse woollen carpets.
William demanded reparation for the raid of Philip's vassals and the cession of Pontoise, Chaumont-en-Vexin and Mantes, but died after sacking Mantes in the same year.
The hemp fibre has always been valuable for the rope industry, and it was at one time very extensively used in the production of yarns for the manufacture of sail cloth, sheeting, covers, bagging, sacking, &c. Much of the finer quality is still made into cloth, but almost all the coarser quality finds its way into ropes and similar material.
Hemp yarns are also used in certain classes of carpets, for special bags for use in cop dyeing and for similar special purposes, but for the ordinary bagging and sacking the employment of hemp yarns has been almost entirely supplanted by yarns made from the jute fibre.
In 1890 the operatives in the jute and hemp industry numbered 39,885, and in 1901 they were (including workers in canvas, sacking, sailcloth, rope, twine, mats, cocoa fibre) 46,550.
The attitude of the archbishop roused great excitement in Paris, and the government had to take precautions to avoid a repetition of the riots which in the preceding February had led to the sacking of the church of St Germain l'Auxerrois and the archiepiscopal palace.