Meanings (ES + gloss)
bolsa • chácara • costal • saco • shicra • shigra
A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
costal • saco
The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 p…
The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — McElrath.
saqueo
The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
the sack of Rome
botín
Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
despedido
Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
get the sack
give (someone) the sack
Phrases
Hacky-SackSanta sackZdarsky tent-sackback, crack and sackball sackballsacballsackbarley sackbivouac sackbollock sackcat in the sackcoalsackcock sackcornsackcrapsackcrocker sackdressing sackdub sackdumb as a sack of bricksdumb as a sack of hammersdumber than a sack of bricksfart sackfloursackget the sackgive the sackgo down like a sack of potatoesgripsackgunny sackgunnysackhackeysackhacky sackhackysackhalter-sackhappy sackhit the sackhoney sackhopsackin the sacklike rats in a sackloiter-sack
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ensacar
To put in a sack or sacks.
Help me sack the groceries.
The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag, and piled like so much firewood outside the spruce-bough lodge.
saquear
To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
It [a lyre] was part of the spoils which he had taken when he sacked the city of Eetion […]
The barbarians sacked Rome in 410 CE.
correr • despedir
To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
He was sacked last September.
[…] Boris Berezovsky on Friday dismissed President Boris Yeltsin's move to sack him from his post as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, […]