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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sack, n.
 1. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
 2. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
 3.  Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. [Written also sacque.]
 4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
 5. Biol. See 2d Sac, 2.
 Sack bearer Zool.. See Basket worm, under Basket.
 Sack tree Bot., an East Indian tree (Antiaris saccidora) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom.
 To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. [Slang]
 To hit the sack, to go to bed. [Slang]