Definition of sack

• n. - A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
• n. - 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.
• n. - 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.
• n. - 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; as, a dressing sack.
• n. - A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
• n. - See 2d Sac, 2.
• n. - Bed.
• v. t. - To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
• v. t. - To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
• n. - The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
• v. t. - To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.