To keep in possession or use.
To employ by paying a retainer.
To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year.
To keep in one's pay or service.
To hold secure.
To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
To put in a sack or sacks.
To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
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).
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.
One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense⁵ below.
A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense⁴ below.
The scrotum.
Bed (either literally or figuratively); usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.