Meaning

A person who sacks or plunders..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who sacks or plunders.
2. A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
3. A machine or device for filling sacks.
4. A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).
5. (baseball, softball, in combination) A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).
6. (American football) A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).
7. Alternative form of saker (cannon)

Example Sentences

1980, Don DeLillo and Sue Buck (as Cleo Birdwell), Amazons, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Chapter 4, p. 70, I think he liked standing over me. It is sort of the warrior’s view. The sacker and plunderer.

Direptor & vexator vrbis. Cicer[o]. A spoy[l]er and sacker of a citie.

Do not some by Honour mean Good-Nature and Humanity, which weak Minds call Virtues? How then! Must we deny it to the Great, the Brave, the Noble, to the Sackers of Towns, the Plunderers of Provinces, and the Conquerors of Kingdoms? Were not these Men of Honour?

[…] Tydeus’ son and Odysseus the sacker of cities cut Dolon off from the host, and ever pursued hard after him.

1929, P. D. Peterson, Through the Black Hills and Bad Lands of South Dakota, Pierre, SD: J. Fred Olander, Chapter 5 “Cement Plant,” p. 41, There are two men, known as sackers who, with the use of machinery, can fill 15,000 to 20,000 sacks a day.

1950, E. D. Gordon and W. M. Hurst, Artificial Drying of Forage Crops, Washington: DC, United States Department of Agriculture, Circular No. 443, p. 20, The feeder conveys the chopped alfalfa to the drying-drum—from the drum the dried forage is conveyed through one or more cooling cyclones to a hammer mill—then through one or more cyclones for further cooling and finally to a sacker.

Romanov was a serial sacker of managers, picked the team himself at times from Vilnius […]

In just six days, Labour’s leader has gone from chino-clad hero of the peace and love brigade to intolerant sacker of pro-Europeans in his ranks.

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