sack

Vidu ankaŭ (ĉiuj lingvoj): Sack, säck

angla

 Substantivo

Angla substantivo English noun
Singularo	Pluralo
sack	sacks

Elparolo

• (Britujo, Usono) IFA:  /sæk/ 

• Sono :

  (

  lingvo -en-, dialekto -US-

  )

  (dosiero)

• Rimoj:

Signifoj

[1] sako

[2] rabaĵo; ŝtelaĵo

Deveno

el la meza angla sak, sako, sakteksaĵo.

Samsencaĵoj

1. 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.
2. 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.

3. nekalkulebla: The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.

   The sack of Rome.

4. nekalkulebla: Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
5. American football A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense³ below.
6. 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.

7. 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.

8. colloquial ; US Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
9. 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.

10. dated A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
11. vulgar ; slang The scrotum.

    He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack.

Samsencaĵoj

• 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

Ekzemploj

[1] There's something in the sack on the scale.

Hiperonimoj

• bag bindle

Derivaĵoj

• 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

• sackcloth
• sack race
• sackful
• sacking (n.)
• sad sack

Derivaĵoj

   

sac sachet satchel

haversack knapsack rucksack

Referencoj kaj literaturo

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 Verbo

(3a persono ununombro simpla as-tempo sacks, as-tempa participo sacking, simpla as-tempo kaj pasinta participo sacked)

Signifoj

[1] prirabi; rabi al; rabi de; elrabi al; disrabi

Samsencaĵoj

1. 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 […]

2. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
3. 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 […]

4. 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.

5. 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, […]

6. 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.

Samsencaĵoj

• 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

Derivaĵoj

• sackable
• sacker
• sack out

Etymology 2

From earlier () , from () , from

 Substantivo

Angla substantivo English noun
Singularo	Pluralo
sack	sacks

1. 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! [...]

Derived terms

• sack-whey

Etymology 3

 Verbo

(3a persono ununombro simpla as-tempo sacks, as-tempa participo sacking, simpla as-tempo kaj pasinta participo sacked)

1. Ŝablono:alternative spelling of

 Substantivo

Angla substantivo English noun
Singularo	Pluralo
sack	sacks

1. Ŝablono:alternative spelling of

Vidu ankaŭ

• Ŝablono:pedialite
• Ŝablono:Wikisource1911Enc Citation

Anagrams

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