sacker

== English == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ækə(ɹ) === Etymology 1 === From sack + -er. ==== Noun ==== sacker (plural sackers) A person who sacks or plunders. 1980, Don DeLillo and Sue Buck (as Cleo Birdwell), Amazons, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Chapter 4, p. 70,[4] I think he liked standing over me. It is sort of the warrior’s view. The sacker and plunderer. 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,[5] There are two men, known as sackers who, with the use of machinery, can fill 15,000 to 20,000 sacks a day. Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”). 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,[6] 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. A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position). (baseball, softball, in combination) A baseman (player positioned at or near a base). 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, New York: Time Reading Program, 1966, “Batter Up!” p. 56,[9] About forty years ago Pop was the third sacker for the old Sox when they got into their first World Series after twenty years. 2009, John H. Ritter, New York: Philomel, Chapter 35, p. 226,[10] Reinspired, he sprang from the dugout and ran out to second base so quickly, the Chicago second sacker, Cal McVey, was still walking in from shallow right field. (American football) A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass). ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== sacker (plural sackers) Alternative form of saker (cannon) === Anagrams === ackers, crakes, creaks, screak