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sac
, renvoi
, plumard
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Sack
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- (n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
- (n.) 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.
- (v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
- (n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
- (n.) See 2d Sac, 2.
- (n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
- (n.) Bed.
- (v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
Synonyms:
Can, Chemise, Clear, Discharge, Dismiss, Dismissal, Dismission, Fire, Firing, Hammock, Liberation, Net, Plunder, Pocket, Poke, Pouch, Release, Sac, Sackful, Sacking, Sacque, Shift, Terminate,
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• Sackage
- (n.) The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack.
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• Sackcloth
- (n.) Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.
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bring under, black and white, flex, bizarre, barograph, bivouac, barnyard, bituminize, book value, bequest, bequeath, often, barrage, barge, barrack, baronial, baroness, barometer, bargee, benzoin, akin, extractive, tab, marriage, dampness, bonanza, bargainer, barefaced, bivalve, bituminous, background, bare, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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