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sacked

sækt
WordNet
Capture and sack of Neuss by the army of Parma, July 26, 1586. Bottom left a legend. Episode from the Cologne War. With caption of 8 lines in German and 2 lines in Latin. Numbered bottom left: 239. The print is part of an album.
Capture and sack of Neuss by the army of Parma, July 26, 1586. Bottom left a legend. Episode from the Cologne War. With caption of 8 lines in German and 2 lines in Latin. Numbered bottom left: 239. The print is part of an album.
  1. (adj) sacked
    having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence "the raped countryside"
Illustrations
Johannes Florianus, Reformed minister in Brussels, bound as a heretic in a sack and thrown into a well, 1585. Design for a print.
Johannes Florianus, Reformed minister in Brussels, bound as a heretic in a sack and thrown into a well, 1585. Design for a print.
Sack of the house of the publisher George Libry, Count of Bagnano, in Brussels on the night of 25 to 26 August 1830. Part of a recueil with plates on the events of the Belgian Revolution in Brussels, Antwerp and other cities in the period 25 August 1830 to March 27, 1831.
Sack of the house of the publisher George Libry, Count of Bagnano, in Brussels on the night of 25 to 26 August 1830. Part of a recueil with plates on the events of the Belgian Revolution in Brussels, Antwerp and other cities in the period 25 August 1830 to March 27, 1831.
Sack of the house of the Amsterdam mayor Joachim Rendorp at Singel 292, in the evening of 29 May 1787.
Sack of the house of the Amsterdam mayor Joachim Rendorp at Singel 292, in the evening of 29 May 1787.
A shouting man with a sack over his shoulder, seen from behind, drifts ahead with a branch on a donkey. In the background the profile of Bologna. Italian fresh in the bottom margin. The print is part of an album.
A shouting man with a sack over his shoulder, seen from behind, drifts ahead with a branch on a donkey. In the background the profile of Bologna. Italian fresh in the bottom margin. The print is part of an album.
A group of men tied up in sacks. From a series of eighteen prints.
A group of men tied up in sacks. From a series of eighteen prints.
The painting of the sack of Oudewater by the Spaniards, 8 August 1575.
The painting of the sack of Oudewater by the Spaniards, 8 August 1575.
In the background, Joseph's brothers leave for home, their sacks full of wheat. In the foreground, Egyptian soldiers discover the silver cup that Joseph has hidden in Benjamin's luggage. The print is part of a series about the history of Joseph
In the background, Joseph's brothers leave for home, their sacks full of wheat. In the foreground, Egyptian soldiers discover the silver cup that Joseph has hidden in Benjamin's luggage. The print is part of a series about the history of Joseph
Capture and sack of Neuss by the troops of the Duke of Parma Neuss after the surrender on July 26, 1586. View from above of the burning city. With caption of 4 lines in Latin. Numbered 185. Printed on the back with text in Latin.
Capture and sack of Neuss by the troops of the Duke of Parma Neuss after the surrender on July 26, 1586. View from above of the burning city. With caption of 4 lines in Latin. Numbered 185. Printed on the back with text in Latin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Hacky Sack was invented by a football player in the mid 1970's who used it to stregthen tendons he had torn in his knee.
  1. sacked
    Wearing a garment called a sack.
Quotations
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
Jewish Proverb
Idioms

Hit the sack - When you hit the sack, you go to bed.

Usage in the news

Johnny Lewis, a 28-year-old actor known for his role as Kip "Half Sack" Epps on FX's Sons of Anarchy, has died. observer.com

Louis gets nine sacks to bust Arizona's unbeaten run. thehawkeye.com

Overland Park — It's never a good sign when it's early in the third quarter and the tuba players already are playing Hacky Sack in the stands. ljworld.com

After his two-sack performance in Sunday's 20-10 win over Cleveland, 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks didn't want the star treatment. blog.sfgate.com

A Sack as Loud as 'The Cockpit of My Jet'. online.wsj.com

Migraine by Oliver Sacks University of California, 298 pp. nybooks.com

41 tackles, 4 TFL, 1.5 sacks, INT (TD), 11 PBU 2010. gr550.com

33 tackles, 5 TFL, 2 sacks, 4 PBU. gr550.com

We aren't picky about where we get our hay or our burlap sacks. dallasobserver.com

Barkevious Mingo has 25 tackles and three sacks on the season. si.com

LSU lost a playmaker on defense and saw its sack production slip. espn.go.com

Rams quarterback Sam Bradford is sacked by Bears linebacker Nick Roach in the second half of Sunday's game in Chicago. columbiamissourian.com

Johnson went to Pro Bowl last season, Houston has four sacks. baltimoresun.com

Cary Edmondson/US PresswireMatt Hasselbeck was sacked eight times Sunday in the Seahawks' loss to the Raiders. espn.go.com

Smith was sacked four times on his first nine drop backs. espn.go.com

Usage in scientific papers

Cross regular sequences are one of the possible extensions of the well known regular sequences introduced by Sacks and Ylvisaker (1966).
Multivariate piecewise linear interpolation of a random field

Multivariate integration and approximation for random fields satisfying Sacks-Ylvisaker conditions.
Multivariate piecewise linear interpolation of a random field

We use cross regular sequences of designs, generalizing the well known regular sequences pioneered by Sacks and Ylvisaker (1966).
Stratified Monte Carlo quadrature for continuous random fields

Sacks-Ylvisaker conditions is studied in Ritter et al. (1995).
Stratified Monte Carlo quadrature for continuous random fields

If d = 1, then l = 1, π(N ) = π1 (N ) = N , and the cross regular sequences become regular sequences introduced by Sacks and Ylvisaker (1966).
Stratified Monte Carlo quadrature for continuous random fields

Usage in literature

It was a sight to see the gusto with which he would run his hand into a sack of wheat to sample it. "Round About a Great Estate" by Richard Jefferies

The year has three days, and each day's wages is seven sacks of ducats! "Roumanian Fairy Tales" by Various

I got tired waiting so I toted the sack to a big log and laid it acrost it. "Slave Narratives, Oklahoma" by Various

Dem dat live in de quarter have lumber bed wid mattress made out of sacks en hay. "Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2" by Works Projects Administration

And when he visited his sack in the morning, he found it filled with fish. "The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians" by Henry R. Schoolcraft

There they sacked and burned the Chateau de Chamondrin! "Which?" by Ernest Daudet

Farland made an attempt to watch the lights along the shore, but one of the men threw a sack over his face, so that he could not see. "The Brand of Silence" by Harrington Strong

You see my medicine-sack and my war-club tied to it. "Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian" by Anonymous

We had a carpet sack for stockings. "Old Rail Fence Corners" by Various

Pete lay flattened out in the doorway behind a sack of corn. "Bloom of Cactus" by Robert Ames Bennet

Usage in poetry
If "life is love, and only love,"
Then never have I lived before;
But for love's sack I'll sit me down
And careful con the lesson o'er.
"Mystery Of Carmel" by Madge Morris Wagner
Er schwingt als Pfund aus seinem Stein
die eigne Braut im eignen Sack.
Der eigne Leib im eignen Kreis
fällt nackt als Sofa aus dem Frack.
"Opus Null" by Jean Hans Arp
But if she frown, despair comes down,
I put me on my sack-cloth gown;
So frown not, Phyllis, lest I die,
But look on me with smile or sigh.
"Response" by Paul Laurence Dunbar Author object (533)
Such as were those, dogs of an elder day,
Who sacked the golden ports,
And those later who dared grapple their prey
Beneath the harbour forts:
"Minora Sidera" by Sir Henry Newbolt
If “life is love, and only love,”
Then never have I lived before;
But for love’s sack I’ll sit me down
And careful con the lesson o’er.
"To Sanson (04)" by Madge Morris Wagner
Great London weeps and wails full sore,
As sack'd Jerusalem of yore:
Nought is there heard but hideous groans,
With loud laments, and mournful moans.
"Another On The Same Occasion" by Rees Prichard