Definition of "sacker" in inglés

noun

1. 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, 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 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.

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

5. (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, 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.

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

noun

1. Alternative form of saker (cannon)