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Answer for the clue "Container for potatoes ", 4 letters:
sack
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Word definitions for sack in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of U.S. football play, 1969, from sack (v.1) in the sense of "to plunder" or sack (v.2) on the notion of "put in a bag." As a noun from 1972.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sack \Sack\, v. t. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson. --L. Wallace. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES dismiss/sack an employee (= stop employing them because they have behaved badly or broken a rule ) ▪ Seven employees were dismissed for misconduct. sack race COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE large ▪ Paul's guide ...
Usage examples of sack.
The only furniture was a rickety angareb covered with coarse sacking in which numerous blood-sucking insects had already set up home.
The sergeant was in mufti, a sack suit in windowpane check of a color that brought out the spider angioma on the side of his nose.
The sorcerer pulled the blue velvet sack of kaokao leaves from his belt and tossed it to Ath, who caught it neatly in one hand.
Bellis felt faintly dismayed by exhaustion when she sat with Tanner Sack and the other engineers in the afternoon, but Aum continued without apparent difficulty, shifting his attention from the conceptual problems and philosophy of the avancs to practical issues of bait, and control, and capture of something the size of an island.
After a while, too, the word got around among the women that all the aviator major wanted was somebody in his sack, and that marriage was the last thing on his mind.
This weeks message was nothing unusual, to the Kingpriests disappointment The banditry in the hills continued, the robbers sacking occasional caravans that dared to break the ban he had placed on trade with the Taoli.
They were intoxicated by his wealth and power: his treasury, the Beit el Mai, held gold, jewels and millions in specie, the spoils of his conquests and the sack of the principal cities of the Nile.
For weeks Claude worked hard at a study of some lightermen unloading a cargo of plaster, carrying white sacks on their shoulders, leaving a white pathway behind them, and bepowdered with white themselves, whilst hard by the coal removed from another barge had stained the waterside with a huge inky smear.
This did not, however, include certain important sums of money, not reckoned in the estate and already tied up in sacks in the vaults of the Capitol, which had been set aside as particular bequests to confederate kings, to senators and knights, to his soldiers, and to the citizens of Rome.
It contained a biochem suit, a blanket, a canvas tarpaulin, a sack, and some cord.
I am for biogenetic donation, so there is no need for the uterine sack inside myself.
Kitels that the Birts fled for safety at the burning and sacking of Deorhyst by Sweyne, and it was by their aid that our family reclaimed some hides of forest land within a short distance of Pendyke and established a settlement, to which they gave the name of Birtsmereton, or the ton or village where the Birts settled close upon the borders of a great mere or moor-land swamp.
The last two scouts worked at pitching their bedrolls and bivvy sacks in the shadowline of the trees.
Like a sack of grain she landed atop the crossbowman, who bleated and tried to jump aside.
And pointing to the wattle, he flung his sacks down only a few inches from Blinky and his mother.