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Sacking   /sˈækɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Sacking  n.  Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.


verb
Sack  v. t.  
1.
To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. "Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson."
2.
To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. (Colloq.)


Sack  v. t.  (past & past part. sacked; pres. part. sacking)  To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage. "The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy."





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"Sacking" Quotes from Famous Books



... have a large share in the process. His baggage consisted of two bundles, very unequal in size and weight. The contents of the smaller one were mainly a shirt and three socks, knotted loosely in a blue cotton handkerchief; the other was done up carefully in sacking, and he liked to have it under ...
— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane
... with field-glasses are watching him. And with his shells he hammers the post of observation into a shambles. Accordingly, when you enter one, it is etiquette not to keep the door open any longer than is necessary to squeeze past it. As a rule, the door is a curtain of sacking, but hands and bodies coated with clay, by brushing against it, ...
— With the French in France and Salonika • Richard Harding Davis
... far from pleasant to be in charge of a flock. If the animals move forward quietly, the herder must seek shelter under every bush, with a piece of sacking over his shoulders to shield him from the wet. But it is far more likely that he will be obliged to run about, with the water squeezing in and out of his shoes, trying to keep track of his animals; for in weather like this the mushrooms spring up plentifully ...
— Lisbeth Longfrock • Hans Aanrud
... seemed at a glance as harmless a place as she had thought it before. An end of it was full of forage, and one side piled high with old farm-implements and empty cases. Rather to the fore of the pile stood one large packing case, sacking and straw sticking from under its loose lid. Christine had just decided there was nothing here to warrant her scrutiny when, lying in front of this case, she saw something that drew her gaze like a magnet. It was ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... trade, on the part of the general government, until the year 1808. For twenty years after the adoption of the Constitution, the citizens of the United States were to be encouraged and protected in the prosecution of that infernal traffic—in sacking and burning the hamlets of Africa—in slaughtering multitudes of the inoffensive natives on the soil, kidnapping and enslaving a still greater proportion, crowding them to suffocation in the holds of the slave ships, populating the Atlantic with their dead bodies, and subjecting the wretched survivors ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society


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