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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.
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. — McElrath.
* 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , Vol. 27,
* 1882 , , A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4,
(uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
(uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
(American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense3 below .
(baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
(informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack' or '''get the sack . ''See verb sense4 below.
(colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack' or '''in the sack'''. ''See also'' ' sack out .
(dated) (also sacque ) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a , fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.
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(dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
(vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
To put in a sack or sacks.
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To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
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(American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass.
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(informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
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(colloquial) In the phrase sack out', to fall asleep. ''See also'' ' hit the sack .
(dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
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A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
A large tract of uncultivated land.
A vast expanse of water.
A disused mine or part of one.
The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
Gradual loss or decay.
A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
(rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"
Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Excrement
(legal) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
Uncultivated, uninhabited.
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*:SOo whanne syr Galahad was departed from the castel of maydens / he rode tyl he came to a waste forest / & there he mette with syre launcelot and syr Percyuale but they knewe hym not / for he was newe desguysed / Ryghte so syr launcelot his fader dressid his spere and brake it vpon syr Galahad
Barren; desert.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 255:
*:For centuries the shrine at Mecca had been of merely local importance, far outshone by the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, whose cult Christians had in good measure renewed by their pilgrimage in honour of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, while leaving the actual site of the Jerusalem Temple dishonoured and waste .
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
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Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.
Unfortunate; disappointing. (rfex)
To devastate or destroy.
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* Dryden
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
* Bible, Numbers xiv. 33
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To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
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Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
* Bible, 1 Kings xvii. 14
(legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
Sack is a related term of waste.
As a noun sack
is sack; a bag.As a verb waste is
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) . (Sense evolution) * “Pillage” senses from the use of sacks in carrying off plunder. From (etyl) . ''See also ransack. American football “tackle” sense from this “plunder, conquer” root. * “Removal from employment” senses attested since 1825; the original formula was “to give (someone) the sack”, likely from the notion of a worker going off with his tools in a sack, or being given such a sack for his personal belongings as part of an expedient severance. Idiom exists earlier in (etyl) (on luy a donné son sac'', 17c.) and (etyl) (iemand den zak geven). English verb in this sense recorded from 1841. Current verb, ''to sack (“to fire”) carries influence from the forceful nature of “plunder, tackle” verb senses. * Slang meaning “bunk, bed” is attested since 1825, originally nautical, likely in reference to sleeping bags. The verb meaning “go to bed” is recorded from 1946.Noun
(en noun)page 202
- Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
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- Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
- The sack of Rome.
- He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.
- The boss is gonna give her the sack today.
- He got the sack for being late all the time.
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- Molly, therefore, having dressed herself out in this sack , with a new laced cap, and some other ornaments which Tom had given her, repairs to church with her fan in her hand the very next Sunday.
- He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack .
Synonyms
* (bag) bag, tote, poke (obsolete) * the axe]], pink slip, the boot, the chop, the elbow, one's cards, [[give somebody the heave-ho, the old heave-ho * hay, rack * ballsack, ball sack, nutsackHyponyms
* (bag) bindleDerived terms
* * ballsack, ball sack * bivouac sack * cat in the sack * dub sack * get the sack, give the sack * gunny sack, gunnysack * hacky sack, hackysack * Hacky-Sack, hackeysack, * hit the sack * in the sack * nutsack * sackcloth * sack race * sackful * sacking (n. ) * sad sackVerb
(en verb)- Help me sack the groceries.
- The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag
- The barbarians sacked Rome.
- It [a lyre] was part of the spoils which he had taken when he sacked the city of Eetion
Sack-happy defensive line stuns Dolphins", SFGate.com, November 21,
- On third down, the rejuvenated Rickey Jackson stormed in over All-Pro left tackle Richmond Webb to sack Marino yet again for a 2-yard loss.
- He was sacked last September.
Russian media mogul dismisses Yeltsin's bid to sack him", CNN.com, March 5,
- The kids all sacked out before 9:00 on New Year’s Eve.
Synonyms
* loot, ransack * (to remove someone from a job) can, dismiss, fire, lay off, let go, terminate, make redundant, give the axe, give the boot, give (someone) their cards, give the chop]], give the elbow, give the old heave-ho, See also : [[Wikisaurus:lay off * rackDerived terms
* sackable * sacker * sack outEtymology 2
From earlier (wyne)Noun
(en noun)- Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack'? ...I ne'er drank ' sack in my life...
- Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack'...let a cup of '''sack''' be my poison...Wherein is he good, but to taste ' sack and drink it?
- How didst thou 'scape? How cam'st thou hither? swear / by this bottle how thou cam'st hither—I escaped upon / a butt of sack , which the sailors heaved overboard, by / this bottle! [...]
Derived terms
* sack-wheyEtymology 3
See also
* (wikipedia "sack") *Anagrams
* *waste
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- That was a waste of time
- Her life seemed a waste
- The cage was littered with animal waste
Derived terms
* ameliorative waste * cotton waste * industrial waste * lay waste * nuclear waste * permissive waste * radioactive waste * rock waste * silk waste * toxic waste * trade waste * voluntary waste * wasteful * wasteless * waste of space * waste of time * waste pipe * wastyEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
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Usage notes
Same meanings as wasted.Derived terms
* affirmative waste * ameliorative waste * go to waste * lay waste * lie waste * nonwasted * nonwasting * permissive waste * run to waste * unwasted * voluntary waste * waste pipe * wasteland * wasteness * wastrifeEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
(wast)- Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted , / Art made a mirror to behold my plight.
- The Tiber / Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
- until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness
- Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
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- E. Kay (1822-1897), afterwards Lord Justice of Appeal, had rooms on the same staircase as myself, and we wasted a great deal of time together, both in term and in my second summer vacation.'' 1909. Francis Galton, ''Memories of my life , p. 69.
- The barrel of meal shall not waste .