† sackenadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Made of sackcloth. sacken gown, sacken sark, sacken weed = sack gown n. at sack n.1 Compounds 2.
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roughOE
sackena1450
rugged1558
homespun?1589
shaggy1664
nubbly1829
nubby1935
a1450 MS Bodl. 779 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1889) 82 334 Þat was a sakken curtil & a pilche also & a blak froccke þer-vppon.
1710 Brit. Apollo 9–11 May Sacken bottom'd Beds.
1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) ii. 13 And wha can bide the shame, whan every body looks to them, wi' their sacken sarks or gowns on them.
1780 W. Forbes Dominie Depos'd 6 In case they wear the sacken-weed For fornication.
1780 W. Forbes Dominie Depos'd 13 He'll get the dud an' sacken gown.
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