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Sacker
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- 1 A person who sacks or plunders.
"Direptor & vexator vrbis. Cicer[o]. A spoy[l]er and sacker of a citie."
- 2 Alternative form of saker (cannon) alt-of, alternative
- 3 A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
"1929, P. D. Peterson, Through the Black Hills and Bad Lands of South Dakota, Pierre, SD: J. Fred Olander, Chapter 5 “Cement Plant,” p. 41, There are two men, known as sackers who, with the use of machinery, can fill 15,000 to 20,000 sacks a day."
- 4 A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.; Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”).
"Know a grocery sacker with a pension like that?"
- 5 A machine or device for filling sacks.
"1950, E. D. Gordon and W. M. Hurst, Artificial Drying of Forage Crops, Washington: DC, United States Department of Agriculture, Circular No. 443, p. 20, 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."
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- 6 A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).
"Romanov was a serial sacker of managers, picked the team himself at times from Vilnius […]"
- 7 A baseman (player positioned at or near a base). in-compounds
"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!"
- 8 A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).
"The loss of last year’s leading sacker, Kerry Hyder Jr., for the season with an Achilles injury is still problematic."
Etymology
From sack + -er.
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