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sacking
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sacking has 2 senses
- sacking(n = noun.artifact) bagging - coarse fabric used for bags or sacks; Array has particulars: burlap, gunny
- sacking(n = noun.act) discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack - the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart); Array has particulars: superannuation, conge, congee, removal, deactivation, inactivation, honorable discharge, dishonorable discharge, section eight
is a kind of cloth, fabric, material, textile
is a kind of conclusion, ending, termination
Derived form verb sack2
CIDE DICTIONARY
sacking, n. [AS. sæccing, from sæcc sack, bag.].
Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
sacking
assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure, freebooting, killing, laying waste, looting, marauding, massacre, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, sack, slaughter, sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, unruliness, violation
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