Sack

Definition of sack:

part of speech: verb

To put into a sack.

part of speech: noun

The plunder or devastation of a town: ravage.

part of speech: verb

To plunder; put into bags.

part of speech: noun

A large bag of coarse cloth, for holding grain, flour, etc.: the contents of a sack: a loose upper garment or cloak.

part of speech: noun

A bag or pouch, especially a large coarse bag; a short, loose garment or cloak; a Spanish dry wine; plunder by soldiers of a town taken by storm.

part of speech: verb

To put into a sack; to pillage.

part of speech: noun

A large bag; loose coat; act of plundering a town; a Spanish wine.

part of speech: verb

To plunder: to ravage.

Usage examples for sack:

• I took my little forty dollars and run it into my buckskin sack "Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher", Eleanor Gates.

• There's mail for yo' in the sack and- a telegram. "The Man Thou Gavest", Harriet T. Comstock.

• When I was a child, it was one of my dreams that that house was my papa's- with the wild garden and all the fruit, and the terrible lake, and the ghost of the lady that goes about in the sack she was drowned in. "Paul Faber, Surgeon", George MacDonald.

• We could see Captain Falk shaking his fist at us, and very clearly we could hear his faint voice calling, I'll sack that ship, so help me! "The Mutineers", Charles Boardman Hawes.