noun
- coarse woven material made from jute or hemp, used for making sacks
- the action of dismissing someone from employment
Usage: informal
verb
- present participle of sack: dismissing someone from employment
- present participle of sack: putting items into sacks
Examples
- The potatoes were stored in sacking to keep them fresh.
- The warehouse workers used heavy sacking to transport grain.
- His sacking came as a shock to the entire office.
- The company announced the sacking of three managers.
- They were sacking the wheat harvest all morning.
- The workers spent hours sacking flour at the mill.
- The rough sacking scratched against her skin.