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angla[redakti]
Substantivo[redakti]
Angla substantivo English noun | |
Singularo | Pluralo |
sack | sacks |
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Signifoj
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- [1] sako
- [2] rabaĵo; ŝtelaĵo
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- el la meza angla sak, sako, sakteksaĵo.
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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, 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.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, page 209
- Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
- nekalkulebla: The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
- The sack of Rome.
- nekalkulebla: 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.
- He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.
- (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense4 below.
- The boss is gonna give her the sack today.
- He got the sack for being late all the time.
- (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 Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV, chapter vii, Google Books
- 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.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV, chapter vii, Google Books
- (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.
- He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack.
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- bag: bag, tote, poke (obsolete)
- (informal: dismissal from employment): the axe, pink slip, the boot, the chop, the elbow, one's cards, the old heave-ho
- (colloquial: bed): hay, rack
- (vulgar slang: scrotum): ballsack, ball sack, nutsack
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- [1] There's something in the sack on the scale.[1]
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- (bag): bindle
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- back, crack and sack
- 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
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- ↑ Luis Jorge Santos. I like English (Mi ŝatas la anglan). The W-S English Series — Bogoto, 2009. vol. 4.
- O'Connor, J. C. kaj Hayes, C. F. English-Esperanto Dictionary. Londono: Review of Reviews, 1906.
Verbo[redakti]
sack (3a persono ununombro simpla as-tempo sacks, as-tempa participo sacking, simpla as-tempo kaj pasinta participo sacked)

Signifoj
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- [1] prirabi; rabi al; rabi de; elrabi al; disrabi
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- To put in a sack or sacks.
- Help me sack the groceries.
- 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter VII,
- The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag […]
- 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.
- The barbarians sacked Rome.
- 1898, Homer, translated by Samuel Butler, The Iliad, Book IX,
- It [a lyre] was part of the spoils which he had taken when he sacked the city of Eetion […]
- (American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass.
- 1995, John Crumpacker and Gwen Knapp, "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.
- 1995, John Crumpacker and Gwen Knapp, "Sack-happy defensive line stuns Dolphins", SFGate.com, November 21,
- (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- He was sacked last September.
- 1999, "Russian media mogul dismisses Yeltsin's bid to sack him", CNN.com, March 5,
- […] Boris Berezovsky on Friday dismissed President Boris Yeltsin's move to sack him from his post as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, […]
- (colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
- The kids all sacked out before 9:00 on New Year’s Eve.
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- (plunder, pillage): 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
- (slang: to hit in the groin): rack
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Etymology 2[redakti]
From earlier (Skripteraro: La funkcio, kiun vi specifis, ne ekzistis.Skripteraro: Tia modulo ne ekzistas.) Skripteraro: La funkcio, kiun vi specifis, ne ekzistis.Skripteraro: Tia modulo ne ekzistas., from (Skripteraro: La funkcio, kiun vi specifis, ne ekzistis.Skripteraro: Tia modulo ne ekzistas.) Skripteraro: La funkcio, kiun vi specifis, ne ekzistis.Skripteraro: Tia modulo ne ekzistas., from Skripteraro: La funkcio, kiun vi specifis, ne ekzistis.Skripteraro: Tia modulo ne ekzistas.
Substantivo[redakti]
Angla substantivo English noun | |
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sack | sacks |
- (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
- Ŝablono:RQ:Shakespeare Shrew
- Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack? ...I ne'er drank sack in my life...
- Ŝablono:RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1
- 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?
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- 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! [...]
- Ŝablono:RQ:Shakespeare Shrew
Derived terms[redakti]
Etymology 3[redakti]
Verbo[redakti]
sack (3a persono ununombro simpla as-tempo sacks, as-tempa participo sacking, simpla as-tempo kaj pasinta participo sacked)
Substantivo[redakti]
Angla substantivo English noun | |
Singularo | Pluralo |
sack | sacks |
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