sacking

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A coarse, stout woven cloth, such as burlap or gunny, used for making sacks; sackcloth.

sacking [ˈsækɪŋ]

(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) coarse cloth used for making sacks, woven from flax, hemp, jute, etc.

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Noun	1.	sacking - coarse fabric used for bags or sacks bagging burlap, gunny - coarse jute fabric cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress" jute - a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks
	2.	sacking - the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) dismission, liberation, firing, dismissal, release, discharge, sack superannuation - the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension) ending, termination, conclusion - the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement" conge, congee - an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal removal - dismissal from office deactivation, inactivation - breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) honorable discharge - a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record dishonorable discharge - a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder) Section Eight - a discharge from the US Army based on unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable

Translations

sacking¹ [ˈsækɪŋ] N

1. (= cloth) → arpillera f

2. (= dismissal) → despido m

sacking² [ˈsækɪŋ] N (Mil) (= plundering) → saqueo m

sacking [ˈsækɪŋ] n

(= material) → toile f à sac

(= dismissal) → renvoi m

sacking

(= material) → Sackleinen nt

(inf: = dismissal) → Entlassung f

sacking [ˈsækɪŋ] n

a. (cloth) → tela di sacco

b. (fam) (dismissal) → licenziamento

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bag
bunk down
crawl in
dismiss
go to bed
go to sleep
grocery bag
gunny
Gunny bag
gunny sack
gunnysack
haversack
hit the hay
hit the sack
kip down
knapsack
rucksack
sack
sack coat

Livia settled all things for the succession of her son Tiberius, by continual giving out, that her husband Augustus was upon recovery and amendment, and it is an usual thing with the pashas, to conceal the death of the Great Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to save the sacking of Constantinople and other towns, as their manner is.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

Their employment of sacking and such-like coarse material for work-a-day clothing, and their habit of tying it on with string and of thrusting wadding and straw inside it for warmth, gave these people an odd, "packed" appearance, and as it was a week-day when Tom took his little nephew for the hen-seeking excursion, so it was they were attired.

The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context

Silk and sacking, that is what we are,' she was informed, to which she would reply obstinately, 'Well, then, I prefer sacking.

Margaret Ogilvy by Barrie, James Matthew View in context

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