6 entries under this word
n. [A-S. sacc, säcc, O. H. Ger. sak, N. H. Ger. sack, D. zak, Sw. säck, Dan. säk, Icel. seckr, Goth. sakkus, Lat. saccus, Gr. σάκκος, Heb. sak; Ir. & Gael. sak, W. & Armor. sach, Corn. zah; Fr. & Pr. sac, Wall. sak, Sp. saco, Pg. & It. sacco; Hung. zsák.]
n. [Lat. sagum, sagus, Gr. σάγος, a coarse woolen blanket or mantle, acc. to Polybius a Celtic word; O. Fr. sái, cloak, tunic, Armor. saé, sé, habit, robe, W. segan, a covering, a cloak. Cf. SAGUM.] A loosely hanging garment for males or females, worn like a cloak about the shoulders. [Written also sacque.]
v. t. To put in a sack; to bag; to put in pouches.
n. [Fr. & Pr. sec, Sp. seco, Pg. & It. secco, Lat. siccus, dry, harsh; O. Eng. seck, Ger. sect.] A Spanish wine of the dry kind; sherry. Shak.
n. [Fr. sac, plunder, pillage, Sp. & Pg. saco, It. sacco, id., Fr. saccager, Sp. & Pg. saquear, It. saccheggiare, to plunder, from Lat. saccus, sack, bag, for sac, saco, sacco, the original meaning of which was pack, packet, booty packed up.] The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
The town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, — by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age. Prescott.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. SACKED (săkt); p. pr. & vb. n. SACKING.] [See supra.] To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage. The Romans lay under the apprehension of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy. Addison.