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sacking
Part of speech: NounCoarse material used for making sacks or bags.
Usage examples "sacking":- During the stay of the court; a wretched sacking- bed in a miserable inn cost twelve francs for a single night; the smallest meal cost an incredible price, and was, notwithstanding, detestable; in fact, it amounted to a genuine pillage of travelers. - "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte", Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton.
- For my part I am accustomed to reckon a gift by its use to me, not by the sacking round about it. - "Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso", Maurice Henry Hewlett.
- He was helping her wash the dishes, drying them deftly with a piece of flour- sacking. - "Snow-Blind", Katharine Newlin Burt.