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sacking
CIDE DICTIONARY
sacking, n. [AS. sæccing, from sæcc sack, bag.].
Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
sacking
assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure, freebooting, killing, laying waste, looting, marauding, massacre, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, sack, slaughter, sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, unruliness, violationFor further exploring for "sacking" in Webster Dictionary Online