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1. (n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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.

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

6. (n.) See 2d Sac, 2.

7. (n.) Bed.

8. (v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.

9. (v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

10. (n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.

11. (v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

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acquire assault attack ax bag balloon banditry barbarize barrel basket batter be seized of bed bedstead bladder boot boot out bottle bounce box box up break brigandage brigandism brutalize bump bunk burden burn bust butcher can capsule capture carry on carton case cashier cashiering cask catch chuck come by come in for come into conge container contract corral couch crate defrock degrade demote deplume deposal depose depredate depredation deprive derive desecrate desolate despoil despoiling despoilment despoliation destroy devastate devour direption disbar discharge disemploy disemployment dismiss dismissal displace displacing displume doss drag down draw drop drum out drumming out earn encase encyst enmesh ensnare entangle enter into possession entrap expel fill fire firing fleece fob forage foraging foray forced separation foul freeboot freebooting freight furlough furloughing gain get give the ax give the gate go on gurney gut hammer hamper harpoon harvest heap heap up hit the hay hit the sack hook jar kick kick out kick upstairs kip kip down lade land lasso lay off lay waste layoff let go let out litter load loot looting make make redundant maraud marauding mass maul mesh mug nail net noose obtain pack pack away package parcel pension off pile pillage pillaging pink slip plunder plundering pocket poke pot pouch prey on procure pull down rage raid raiding ramp rampage ransack ransacking rant rape rapine ravage ravagement ravaging rave raven ravish ravishment razzia read out of reap reive reiving release removal remove replace retire retirement rifle rifling riot roar rope ruin sac sack out sacking savage score secure send packing separate forcibly ship slaughter snag snare sniggle sofa sow chaos spear spoil spoiling spoliate spoliation stack store storm stow stretcher strip superannuate surplus surplusing suspend suspension sweep take tangle tangle up with tank tear tear around terminate terrorize the ax the boot the bounce the gate the hay the sack
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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