Word Meaning

sack definition and meaning

n. A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
n. 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.
n. 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.
n. 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.
n. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
n. See 2d Sac, 2.
n. Bed.
v. t. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
v. t. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
n. The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
v. t. To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

Crossword clues for sack

- Destroy mailbag
- Dismiss
- Dismiss (from job)
- Fire
- Give notice of what is needed for picnic race 
- Hit it when you retire, get it when you’re made redundant
- Large bag
- Large strong bag
- Plunder and fire with large coarse bag
- Postbag
- Potato bag