sacknoun詞源 1/sæk/

• 1

  A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.

• 2

  The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).

  • The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — .
  • Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
• 3

  The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.

  • the sack of Rome
• 4

  Loot or booty obtained by pillage.

• 5

  American-footballball-gamesfootballA successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.

• 6

  ball-gamesbaseballgamesOne of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.

  • He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.
• 7

  informalDismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.

  • give (someone) the sack
  • get the sack
• 8

  Bed.

  • hit the sack
  • in the sack

sackverb詞源 1/sæk/

• 1

  To put in a sack or sacks.

  • Help me sack the groceries.
  • The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag, and piled like so much firewood outside the spruce-bough lodge.
• 2

  To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

• 3

  To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.

  • The barbarians sacked Rome in 410 CE.
  • My sister wants to sack Tokyo.
• 4

  American-footballball-gamesfootballTo tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.

  • On third down, the rejuvenated Rickey Jackson stormed in over All-Pro left tackle Richmond Webb to sack Marino yet again for a 2-yard loss.
• 5

  informalTo discharge from a job or position; to fire.

  • He was sacked last September.
  • […] Boris Berezovsky on Friday dismissed President Boris Yeltsin's move to sack him from his post as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, […]
• 6

  slangTo give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.

  • Sack the homework.
  • Sack him, let's run.

sacknoun詞源 2/sæk/

• 1

  datedA variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.

  • Wilt pleaſe your Lord drink a cup of ſacke? […] I am Christophero Sly, call not mee Honour nor Lordship: I ne're drank ſacke in my life: […]
  • Giue me a Cup of Sacke, Rogue. Is there no Vertue extant?

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• sac