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▪ I. sacked, a. nonce-wd.|sækt| [f. sack n.4 + -ed2.] Wearing a sack.
1847Disraeli Tancred ii. xiv, Gentlemen in wigs, and ladies powdered, patched and sacked. ▪ II. sacked, ppl. a.1|sækt| [f. sack v.2 + -ed1.] That has been given up to sack; plundered, ravaged.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 1740 Who like a late sack't Iland vastlie stood Bare and vnpeopled. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 200 Semblable to that sacked Lacedemon in Sparta. 1697Dryden æneid ix. 350 Two large Goblets..which, when old Priam reign'd, My conqu'ring Sire at sack'd Arisba gain'd. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 239 An old woman..who looked as sacked and ruinous as everything around her. ▪ III. sacked, ppl. a.2 [f. sack v.1 + -ed1.] 1. That has been put into a sack; stored in a sack.
1895Funk's Stand. Dict. s.v. sack1 vt., Sacked grain. 1937E. Hemingway To have & have Not ii. i. 78 The man went on slowly lifting the sacked packages of liquor and dropping them over the side. 1970D. Waterfield Continental Waterboy i. 3 The trouble with lock gates built of sacked mud is that they do not ordinarily open easily. 2. That has been ‘given the sack’; dismissed, discharged (from employment or office). Also absol.
1934G. B. Shaw On Rocks 148 The exterminated, or, as we call them, the evicted and sacked, try to avoid starvation. 1981Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 8/8 (heading) Pay out for sacked heart man. |