sack

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting, usually suspended between two trees

   We should set up some sacks in the backyard for napping.

2. 2
   verb

   put in a sack

   The grocer sacked the onions

3. 3
   verb

   plunder (a town) after capture

   the barbarians sacked Rome

4. 4
   noun

   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).

   The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — .

5. 5
   noun

   The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.

   the sack of Rome

6. 6
   noun

   One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.

   He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.

7. 7
   noun

   Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.

   give (someone) the sack

8. 8
   noun

   Bed.

   hit the sack

Etymology

From Middle English sak, sek, sach, zech (“bag, sackcloth”), from Old English sacc (“sack, bag”) and sæċċ (“sackcloth, sacking”); both from Proto-West Germanic *sakku, from late Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (“sack”), borrowed from Latin saccus (“large bag”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “bag of coarse cloth”), from Semitic, possibly Phoenician or Hebrew. Cognate with Dutch zak, German Sack, Swedish säck, Danish sæk, Hebrew שַׂק (śaq, “sack, sackcloth”), Aramaic סַקָּא, Classical Syriac ܣܩܐ, Ge'ez ሠቅ (śäḳ), Akkadian 𒆭𒊓 (saqqu), Egyptian sꜣgꜣ. Doublet of sac, saccus, saco, and sakkos. Černý and…