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noun

Sack n.

1.

A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.

2.

A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.

3.

Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. (Written also sacque)

4.

A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

5.

(Biol.) See 2d Sac, 2.

Sack bearer (Zool.). See Basket worm, under Basket.

Sack tree (Bot.), an East Indian tree (Antiaris saccidora) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom.

To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. (Slang)

To hit the sack, to go to bed. (Slang)

Sacque n. Same as 2d Sack, 3.

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"Sacque" Quotes from Famous Books

... was awake and expecting him, the nurse said. She lay propped up by pillows, draped about with a dainty, frilly dressing-sacque that looked too frivolous for Nurse Wright, yet could surely have come from no other source. The golden hair was lying in two long braids, one over each shoulder, and there was a faint flush of expectancy on her ...

— The Witness • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

... is so pretty for the travelling-dress as a tailor-made costume of very light cloth, with sacque to match for a cold day. No travelling-dress should of itself be too heavy, as our railway carriages are kept so ...

— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

... moment as she leaned back in her chair, her blue dressing sacque open at the throat ...

— The Cromptons • Mary J. Holmes

... please: I want a diamond ring, and a seal-skin sacque, a real foreign nobleman, and a pug dog, and a box at the opera, and, oh, ever so many other things; but all Ma wants is ten cents' worth ...

— Good Stories from The Ladies Home Journal • Various

... best, and just driving off to Woodmucket to spend a day or two with her married daughter, and soothe her nerves with the uproar incident to a town of six hundred inhabitants. She delayed her journey a half-hour—long enough, in fact, to change her black silk waist for a loose sacque which would give her arms full and comfortable play. The joy and astonishment that greeted the Square Baby on his advent, five years ago, was forgotten for the first time in his brief life, and he was treated precisely as any ordinary wrongdoer would have been treated under the same circumstances, ...

— The Diary of a Goose Girl • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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