Crossword clues for sacking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sack \Sack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Sacking.] [See Sack pillage.] To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their
city sacked by a barbarous enemy.
--Addison.
Sacking \Sack"ing\, n. [AS. s[ae]ccing, from s[ae]cc sack, bag.] Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks). 2 (context countable English) Firing or termination of an employee. vb. (present participle of sack English)
WordNet
n. coarse fabric used for bags or sacks [syn: bagging]
the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack]
Usage examples of "sacking".
They were both then lying on the sacking of the bedstead in the chamber where Mademoiselle L.
Getting upon the sacking of the bedstead, I looked over the head-board minutely at the second casement.
There were doubtless many among the Puritans who had no love for the Prelatists, but none save the most crack-brained fanatics could fail to see that the sacking of the Cathedral would set the whole Church of England in arms, and ruin the cause for which they were fighting.
He sucked his finger, knowing that Godwin had broken a needle that had been too light to perform the task of resewing the sacking to the material of the sofa.
Presently Throstle eased his body on the straw-padded sacking which covered his perch, stretched himself and fell deeply asleep.
He had taken the bit of sacking I had worn, and the slave beads, and the slave bracelets, which had confined my wrists.
The interminable stripping off in draughty buildings and the washing of hands and chest in buckets of cold water, using scrubbing soap and often a piece of sacking for a towel.
Marvin Kitman mourned the surprise sacking of Grodin, which he attributed to my interview.
During the past two years, since taking charge of the Phocian forces, he had moved his armies around central Greece with consummate skill, taking key cities in central Greece and sacking the Boeotian stronghold of Orchomenus.
Attache Potemkin felt a surge of relief, struck by the thought that if the Turks themselves gave this interview such low priority, his chief could hardly rank his error as a sacking offense.
All the boxes of goods, the hanging fabrics, the festoons of lace, the boxes of sweets in the grocery section, the displays of this and that, were being whipped down, folded up, slapped into tidy receptacles, and everything that could not be taken down and put away had sheets of some coarse stuff like sacking flung over them.
Mongols began to pour in from the east, sacking Samarkand and overrunning most of the expanse of the old Parthia before a Moslem army of Seljuks, Swarizmi, Kurds, Ortuquids, Zangids, Abbasids, and Azerbaijans met them on the banks of the Tigris and were soundly trounced.
I closed my eyes, I saw Ice Islanders sacking the very heart of Formalin power.
There were booths below the elm trees, protected from possible rain by awnings of sacking, where ribands and crockery and cheap knives were being vended.
It was small and there was no window to it and on the floor were two pallets of straw and sacking with serapes over them.