dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking
(noun) the termination of someone’s employment (leaving them free to depart)
sacking, bagging
(noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sacking (countable and uncountable, plural sackings)
(uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
(countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
sacking
present participle of sack
• cakings, casking
Source: Wiktionary
Sack"ing, n. Etym: [AS. sæccing, from sæcc sack, bag.]
Definition: Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
Sack, n. Etym: [OE. seck, F. sec dry (cf. Sp. seco, It secco), from L. siccus dry, harsh; perhaps akin to Gr. sikata sand, Ir. sesc dry, W. hysp. Cf. Desiccate.]
Definition: A anme formerly given to various dry Spanish wines. "Sherris sack." Shak. Sack posset, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients.
Sack, n. Etym: [OE. sak, sek, AS. sacc, sæcc, L. saccus, Gr. sak; cf. F. sac from the Latin. Cf. Sac, Satchel, Sack to plunder.]
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. McElrath.
3. Etym: [Perhaps a different word.]
Definition: Originally, a loosely hanging garnment 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 saek. [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.)
Definition: See 2d Sac, 2. Sack bearer (Zoöl.). 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]
Sack, v. t.
1. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson. L. Wallace.
2. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. [Colloq.]
Sack, n. Etym: [F. sac plunder, pillage, originally, a pack, packet, booty packed up, fr. L. saccus. See Sack a bag.]
Definition: the pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage. The town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age. Prescott.
Sack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Sacking.] Etym: [See Sack pillage.]
Definition: To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage. The Romans lay under the apprehension of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 September 2024
(noun) an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect; “the skillful orchestration of his political campaign”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
