Sacker

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who sacks or plunders.

    "Direptor & vexator vrbis. Cicer[o]. A spoy[l]er and sacker of a citie."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of saker (cannon) alt-of, alternative
  3. 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. 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. 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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  1. 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 […]"

  2. 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!"

  3. 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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