sacker

noun

1. A person who sacks or plunders.

   “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.”

2. 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, There are two men, known as sackers who, with the use of machinery, can fill 15,000 to 20,000 sacks a day.”

3. A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.

   “Know a grocery sacker with a pension like that?”

4. 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, 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.”

5. A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).

   “Romanov was a serial sacker of managers, picked the team himself at times from Vilnius […]”

   “In just six days, Labour’s leader has gone from chino-clad hero of the peace and love brigade to intolerant sacker of pro-Europeans in his ranks.”

6. (in-compounds)A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).

   “The ball crossed the base before he did, but it bounded between the third sacker’s feet, and score two was marked up for Hollis Creek, with nobody out!”

   “1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, New York: Time Reading Program, 1966, “Batter Up!” p. 56, 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, 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.”

7. A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).

   “The loss of last year’s leading sacker, Kerry Hyder Jr., for the season with an Achilles injury is still problematic.”

8. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of saker (cannon)