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A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
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(games) A sacrifice.
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Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.
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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.
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The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
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A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
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The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
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The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — McElrath.
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The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
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The sack of Rome.
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Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
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A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense4 below.
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One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
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He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.
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Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense5 below.
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He got the sack for being late all the time.
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Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
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(also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.
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A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
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The scrotum.
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He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack.
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To put in a sack or sacks.
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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.
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A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
Examples of sacks in a Sentence
They are then used as coal sacks.
These sacks of wheat or barley grains are cleaned to remove any dust.
I saw it, with its two round sacks tied tightly and men standing nearby with their hats off.
Apart from diaper waste sacks, only refuse left inside the shut wheeled bin is collected.
The leaves are stripped, withered, rolled and sorted, then packed in sacks and exported, chiefly to Argentina.
Dr. Jonathan Sacks is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew congregations of the Commonwealth.
Only terraced houses with no front garden or rear access are allowed to use refuse sacks.
All Things Jeeps carries many tote bags and cinch sacks from Life in Good, several with a great looking Jeep style graphic.
You can find burlap sacks in the gardening section of most home improvement stores.
Tammy was in the back seat asleep, so she carefully unbuckled her and carried her to the house while Sarah brought in the shopping sacks.
He sat the sacks on the counter and turned toward the door.
In calling upon dangerous blacks at night they pretended to be the spirits of dead Confederates, "just from Hell," and to quench their thirst would pretend to drink gallons of water which was poured into rubber sacks concealed under their robes.
The chief articles of import are apparel and textiles, machinery and hardware, stimulants, narcotics, explosives, bags and sacks, books and paper, oils and tea.
This habit can be used as a means of killing them, by placing boards or sacks covered with tar below the trees, which are then gently shaken.
The poet was at that moment in the bath, and seeing the sacks, and believing that they contained the expected gold, received them with great satisfaction, but finding only silver he complained to Ayaz that he had not executed the sultan's order.
The industries include the spinning of jute, flax, hemp and cotton, iron-founding, brewing, and the manufacture of machinery, fishing-nets, sailcloth, sacks, casks, and soap. There are also saw-and flour-mills, petroleum refineries and oil-works.
During the five years 1900 to 1904 inclusive, the average value of Guatemalan imports, which consisted chiefly of textiles, iron and machinery, sacks, provisions, flour, beer, wine and spirits, amounted to £776,000; about one-half came from the United States, and nearly one-fourth from the United Kingdom.
The industries comprise boatbuilding, rope-making, steam-sawing, distilling and the manufacture of chocolate, machinery and sacks and coarse coverings, and at Margny, a suburb, there are manufactures of chemicals and felt hats.
The seeds should be kept in sacks or bags in a dry place, and if from plants which are rare, or liable to lose their vitality, they are advantageously packed for transmission to a distance in hermetically sealed bottles or jars filled with earth or moss, without the addition of moisture.
The greatest activity is shown in the cotton industry, which flourishes especially in the Twente district of Overysel, where jute is also worked into sacks.
One great drawback to the use of even the purest rock-salt simply ground is its tendency to revert to a hard unwieldy mass, when kept any length of time in sacks.
Combined harvesters (which enter a field of standing grain and leave this grain piled in sacks ready for shipment), steam gang-ploughs, and other farm machinery are of truly extraordinary size and efficiency.
Great kraals were also prepared for the promised cattle, and huge skin sacks to hold the milk that was soon to be more plentiful than water.
These machines cut, thresh and stack the grain at the rate of 1600 sacks a day, and cover an area in that time of 100 acres.
There is also a quantity made into sacks which are intended to hold very heavy material.
Numbly, she rolled over to a pile of grain sacks they had put up as a barricade.
When softened by whale oil, it can be woven on machines to make coal sacks, horse bags and carpet backing.
Showing asbestos from a conveyor belt being loaded into sacks.
This is only a guide however, as some of the " smaller " sacks are still fairly bulky with plenty of props inside.
Do the curious checkered sacks beneath his chin represent fir cones or grapes?
Jody Sacks and I will be working on refurbishing the new library giving it a new face-lift!
Remove any damaged tubers; store good ones in thick paper sacks closed at the neck to conserve moisture.
These included a pantry which contained cheeses, hams and fruit some of which they stuffed into sacks for later.
The scheme uses minimal packaging; disposal sacks are made from recycled plastic.
Then the local postmaster rang to inquire whether someone would be at home to receive sacks full of postcards.
Attenuation of gamma and x-ray emitting radionuclides, like the plastic sacks, is minimal.
Fifty miles away, beside a 600-strong camp of Zanu militia, lorries were unloading sacks of maize.
Paper is shredded after full use, and biodegradable sacks are used for the little rubbish they produce.
Your school will be provided with a shoe reuse bin and reusable sacks small enough to store in a corridor or classroom corner.
This does not apply to the pink refuse sacks.
Do not use plastic sacks - the humidity will be too high, which stimulates sprouting.
Two ladies (Mrs Burgess and Mrs Hall) were employed to sew up and mend the Hessian sacks - quite a messy job.
The lorries were carefully checked before leaving the wharf, so that we could be sure the correct number of sacks were on board.
In the same way certain governments become famous for certain commodities, as Moscow for osier baskets, flower baskets, wicker furniture and lace; Kostroma for lace, wooden utensils, toys, wooden spoons, cups and bowls, bast sacks and mats, bast boots and garden products; Yaroslavl for furniture, brass samovars, saucepans, spurs, rings, &c.; Vladimir for furniture, osier baskets and flower-stands and sickles; NizhniyNovgorod for bast mats and sacks, knives, forks and scissors; Tver for lace, nails, sieves, anchors, fish-hooks, locks, coarse clay pottery, saddlery and harness, boots and shoes, and so on.
All along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks.
At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks, and enormous sacks, stood in front of the sheds, and animated French talk mingled with curses sounded all along the lines.
As with all roll-top bags, these dry sacks are not designed to be submerged in water for any length of time.
Two ladies (Mrs Burgess and Mrs Hall) were employed to sew up and mend the hessian sacks - quite a messy job.
They broke out of the barracks, stormed Tidemills and took 300 sacks of flour from the sloop ship Lucy.
In the home - Tying untidy computer/hi-fi cables, refuse sacks.