SG Heritage Dictionary

Sacking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of taking by storm and pillaging.

2. Cloth of which sacks or bags are made.

3. The coarse cloth or canvas fastened to a bedstead for supporting the bed.

Sacking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Taking by assault and plundering or pillaging.

Sacking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.

Sacking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Sacking Encyclopedia Britannica

SACKING and SACK MANUFACTURE. Sacking is a stout close-woven fabric, properly of flax, but now very largely made of jute. The chief centres of the manufacture are Dundee and Forfar in Scotland. Sacks, however, are made of many qualities and from different fibres, according to the purposes to which they are devoted. A large proportion of flour sacks, those particularly of American origin, are made of stout cotton. Numerous attempts have been made to manufacture seamless sacks; but none have met with success. The invention of a sewing-machine for the “overhead” seaming of sacks has been successfully solved in the machine of Laing and other inventors.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 21, p. 131
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