sacker
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).
noun
A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).
noun
Alternative form of saker (cannon)
Example Sentences
- "Direptor & vexator vrbis. Cicer[o]. A spoy[l]er and sacker of a citie."
- "Do not some by Honour mean Good-Nature and Humanity, which weak Minds call Virtues? How then! Must we deny it to the Great, the Brave, the Noble, to the Sackers of Towns, the Plunderers of Provinces, and the Conquerors of Kingdoms? Were not these Men of Honour?"
- "[…] Tydeus’ son and Odysseus the sacker of cities cut Dolon off from the host, and ever pursued hard after him."
- "1980, Don DeLillo and Sue Buck (as Cleo Birdwell), Amazons, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Chapter 4, p. 70, I think he liked standing over me. It is sort of the warrior’s view. The sacker and plunderer."
- "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."
- "Know a grocery sacker with a pension like that?"
Etymology
From sack + -er.