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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



... of the sacking of Colchester showed this to have been a most extraordinarily brutal affair for the work of a civilized army. The British regular troops at Colchester represented the whole of our forces of the northeastern division, and included three batteries of artillery. The regiments of this ...
— The Message • Alec John Dawson
... intend to pick it up, but in the moment in which he stood looking down at it he heard close to him a shuffling movement. What he had thought a bundle of rags or rubbish covered with sacking—some tramp's deserted or forgotten belongings—was stirring. It was alive, and as he bent to look at it the sacking divided itself, and a small head, covered with a shock of brilliant red hair, thrust itself out, ...
— The Dawn of a To-morrow • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... than small ones; but that is only because the big combinations have the monopoly of advertisement as well as trade. The big shop is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency. It is secure in its reputation for always sacking the wrong man. A big shop, considered as a place to shop in, is simply a village of small shops roofed in to keep out the light and air; and one in which none of the shopkeepers is really responsible for his shop. If any one has any doubts on this matter, since I have mentioned it, let ...
— What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton
... the enemy. A corner is turned and the road gets better. We draw up at a building with no light showing, and R.A.M.C. orderlies come up the steps from a cellar. This is the advanced dressing station; it collects from a brigade front and there are two doctors at work. A large window covered with sacking opens at the level of the ground into the cellar, and the wounded are lifted through it. Some will stay here all night, but the most seriously hurt are sent on to the casualty clearing station five or six miles back. Hot drinks are going and are welcome, for the injured men are trembling and ...
— On the King's Service - Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms • Innes Logan
... warriors, who were always pillaging the neighbourhood, used often to commit great slaughters. Plundering houses, cutting down cattle, sacking everything, making great hauls of booty, rifling houses, then burning them, massacring male and female promiscuously—these, and not honest dealings, were their occupations. Fridleif surprised them while on ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")


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