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Qu'est-ce (qui) est SACKFUL - définition

sackful

ENGLISH UNIT OF WEIGHT OR MASS USED FOR COAL AND WOOL

Large sack; Sackful

(sackfuls)

A sackful is the amount of something that a sack contains or could contain.

...a sackful of presents...

= sack

N-COUNT: oft N of n

Sackful

ENGLISH UNIT OF WEIGHT OR MASS USED FOR COAL AND WOOL

Large sack; Sackful

·adj Bent on plunder.

II. Sackful ·noun As much as a sack will hold.

sack

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE

Sacking; Sacked; The sack; Sack (disambiguation); Sacks

sack¹

¦ noun

1. a large bag made of a material such as hessian or thick paper, used for storing and carrying goods.

(also sack dress) a woman's short, loose dress without a waistline, popular especially in the 1950s.

2. (the sack) informal dismissal from employment.

3. (the sack) informal, chiefly N. Amer. bed.

4. Baseball, informal a base.

5. American Football a tackle of a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.

¦ verb

1. informal dismiss from employment.

2. (sack out) N. Amer. informal go to sleep or bed.

3. American Football tackle with a sack.

4. put into a sack or sacks.

Phrases

hit the sack informal go to bed.

Derivatives

sackable adjective

sackful noun (plural sackfuls).

Origin

OE sacc, from L. saccus 'sack, sackcloth', from Gk sakkos, of Semitic origin.

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sack²

¦ verb plunder and destroy (used chiefly in historical contexts).

¦ noun an instance of sacking.

Origin

C16: from Fr. sac, in the phr. mettre a sac 'put to sack', on the model of Ital. fare il sacco, mettere a sacco, which perh. orig. referred to filling a sack with plunder.

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sack³

¦ noun historical a dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from Spain and the Canaries.

Origin

C16: from the phr. wyne seck, from Fr. vin sec 'dry wine'.

Exemples du corpus de texte pour SACKFUL

1. We were offered instead a bulging sackful of mixed measures, with no clear theme running through them – apart from a desire to wrong–foot the Tories.

2. There can be no more sickening sight for Northern Rock‘s investors, employees and customers than Adam Applegarth, the chief executive responsible for the bank‘s downfall, being rewarded with a sackful of cash.

3. How did Judge Alan Berg describe The Jeremy Kyle Show? a) "As pointless as a sackful of broken compasses" b) "A human form of bear–baiting" c) "The best hope for a peaceful solution to the Middle East problem" d) "My pick for the TV Quick Award 2007" 13.

4. The Daily Mail‘s Ben Brogan writes on his blog today that a sackful of his printouts was found in the Commons by a Labour supporter and passed to Downing Street, "with the worst being saved for later". The Backbencher has a feeling that Guido Fawkes won‘t, for once, be seeing any of them.

5. "And I think that they‘ve got a little work to do with the packing and sorting and grading and sizing for the international market because that‘s what the international market expects." Pomegranates in Afghanistan are transported by the sackful along bumpy roads in trucks, which damages the fruit and reduces its shelf life.