sack

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To rob (a town, for example) of goods or valuables, especially after capture.
• noun The looting or pillaging of a captured city or town.
• noun Any of various light, dry, strong wines from Spain and the Canary Islands, imported to England in the 1500s and 1600s.
• noun A bag, especially one made of strong material for holding grain or objects in bulk.
• noun The amount that a sack can hold.
• noun A short loose-fitting garment for women and children.
• noun Slang Dismissal from employment.
• noun Informal A bed, mattress, or sleeping bag.
• noun Baseball A base.
• noun Football A successful attempt at sacking the quarterback.
• transitive verb To place into a sack.
• transitive verb Slang To discharge from employment: synonym: dismiss.
• transitive verb Football To tackle (a quarterback attempting to pass the ball) behind the line of scrimmage.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The plundering of a city or town after storming and capture; plunder; pillage: as, the sack of Magdeburg.
• noun The plunder or booty so obtained; spoil; loot.
• To put into sacks or bags, for preservation or transportation: as, to sack grain or salt.
• To inclose as in a bag; cover or incase as with a sack.
• To heap or pile as by sackfuls.
• To give the sack or bag to; discharge or dismiss from office, employment, etc.; also, to reject the suit of: as, to sack a lover.
• To plunder or pillage after storming and taking: as, to sack a house or a town.
• noun Originally, one of the strong light-colored wines brought to England from the south, as from Spain and the Canary Islands, especially those which were dry and rough.
• noun A bag; especially, a large bag, usually made of coarse hempen or linen cloth. (See sackcloth.) Sacks are used to contain grain, flour, salt, etc., potatoes and other vegetables, and coal.
• noun A unit of dry measure.
• noun Sackcloth; sacking.
• noun [Also spelled sacque.] A gown of a peculiar form which was first introduced from France into England toward the close of the seventeenth century, and continued to be fashionable throughout the greater part of the eighteenth, century.
• noun The loose straight back itself. The term seems to have been used in this sense in the eighteenth century.
• noun [Also spelled sacque.] A kind of jacket or short coat, cut round at the bottom, fitting the body more or less closely, worn at the present day by both men and women: as, a sealskin sack; a sack-coat.
• noun In anatomy and zoology, a sac or saccule.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
• noun a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients.
• transitive verb To put in a sack; to bag.
• transitive verb colloq. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
• noun The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
• noun (Biol.) See 2d Sac, 2.
• noun (Zoöl.) See Basket worm, under Basket.
• noun (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.
• noun [Slang] to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted.
• noun [Slang] to go to bed.
• transitive verb To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun dated A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
• noun 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.
• noun 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).
• noun uncountable The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.