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*** Pronunciation
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*** Etymology 1
From [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A person who sack s or plunder s.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1578 | author= [Thomas Cooper (bishop)] | title=Thesaurus linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ | location=London | publisher=Henry Denham | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19275.0001.001
|passage=Direptor & vexator vrbis. [Cicero]. _A spoy [ l]er and SACKER of a
citie._}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1743 | author=w:Henry Fielding | title=w:The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great | journal=Miscellanies | volume=3 | location=London | publisher=A. Millar | section=Book 1, Chapter 13, p. 80 | url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000205668
|passage=Do not some by Honour mean Good-Nature and Humanity, which weak Minds
call Virtues? How then! Must we deny it to the Great, the Brave, the Noble, to
the SACKERS of Towns, the Plunderers of Provinces, and the Conquerors of
Kingdoms? Were not these Men of Honour?}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1883 | translators=w:Andrew Lang; w:Walter Leaf; w:Ernest Myers | title=The [Iliad] of [Homer] | location=London | publisher=Macmillan | section=Book 10, p. 194 | url=https://archive.org/details/iliadofhomerdone00homeuoft
|passage=[...] Tydeus’ son and Odysseus the SACKER of cities cut Dolon off
from the host, and ever pursued hard after him.}}
1. * 1980 , [Don DeLillo] and Sue Buck (as Cleo Birdwell), _[Amazons (novel)]_ , New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Chapter 4, p. [nbsp] 70, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/amazonsintimatem00deli </sup>
2. *: I think he liked standing over me. It is sort of the warrior’s view. The SACKER and plunderer.
3. A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
4. * 1929 , P. D. Peterson, _Through the Black Hills and Bad Lands of South Dakota_ , Pierre, SD: J. Fred Olander, Chapter 5 “Cement Plant,” p. [nbsp] 41, <sup> see http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54007/54007-h/54007-h.htm </sup>
5. *: There are two men, known as SACKERS who, with the use of machinery, can fill 15,000 to 20,000 sacks a day.
1. [en] .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | author=Ross Ramsey | title=Life of a Texas Lawmaker: Lousy Pay, Great Benefits | journal=w:The Texas Tribune | date=13 April 2012 | titleurl=https://www.texastribune.org/2012/04/13/lousy-pay-great-benefits/
|passage=Know a grocery SACKER with a pension like that?}}
1. A machine or device for filling sacks.
2. * 1950 , E. D. Gordon and W. M. Hurst, _Artificial Drying of Forage Crops_ , Washington: DC, United States Department of Agriculture, _Circular_ No. 443, p. [nbsp] 20, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/artificialdrying443gord </sup>
3. *: The feeder conveys the chopped alfalfa to the drying-drum—from the drum the dried forage is conveyed through one or more cooling cyclones to a hammer mill—then through one or more cyclones for further cooling and finally to a SACKER .
4. A person who sacks or fire s [dismisses someone from a job or position] .
5. * {{ quote-text | en | date=18 January 2014 | author=Nick Harris | title=His impoverished club haven't known the glory days for 27 years but... | url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2541886/His-impoverished-club-havent-known-glory-days-27-years-Steven-Pressley-feels-shook-Coventry.html
|passage=[Vladimir Romanov] was a serial SACKER of managers, picked the team
himself at times from Vilnius [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | author=Joe Murphy | title=Jeremy Corbyn: Glastonbury’s ‘hero of peace’ prepares to do battle with own Labour ranks to get his way | journal=w:London Evening Standard | date=30 June 2017 | titleurl=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-glastonbury-s-hero-of-peace-prepares-to-do-battle-with-own-labour-ranks-to-get-his-way-a3576866.html
|passage=In just six days, Labour’s leader has gone from chino-clad hero of
the peace and love brigade to intolerant SACKER of pro-Europeans in his
ranks.}}
1. [en] A baseman [player positioned at or near a base] .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1910 | author=w:George Randolph Chester | title=The Early Bird | location=Indianapolis | publisher=Bobbs-Merrill | chapter=15 | url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19272/19272-h/19272-h.htm
|passage=The ball crossed the base before he did, but it bounded between the
third SACKER’S feet, and score two was marked up for Hollis Creek, with nobody
out!}}
1. * 1952 , [Bernard Malamud] , _[The Natural]_ , New York: Time Reading Program, 1966, “Batter Up!” p. [nbsp] 56, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/thenatural00mala </sup>
2. *: About forty years ago Pop was the third SACKER for the old Sox when they got into their first World Series after twenty years.
3. * 2009 , [John H. Ritter] , New York: Philomel, Chapter 35, p. [nbsp] 226, <sup> see https://openlibrary.org/ia/desperadowhostol00ritt </sup>
4. *: Reinspired, he sprang from the dugout and ran out to second base so quickly, the Chicago second SACKER , Cal McVey, was still walking in from shallow right field.
5. [en] A player who sack s [tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass] .
6. * {{ quote-journal | en | author=Bob Wojnowski | title=Wojo: Patriots hand Lions cold glimpse of reality | journal=w:The Detroit News | date=26 August 2017 | titleurl=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/columnists/bob-wojnowski/2017/08/26/wojo-patriots-hand-lions-cold-glimpse-reality/104975482/
|passage=The loss of last year’s leading SACKER, Kerry Hyder Jr., for the
season with an Achilles injury is still problematic.}}
***** Translations
[someone who plunders]
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*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [cannon]
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