sacker

Noun

sacker (plural sackers)

1. A person who sacks or plunders.
   • Direptor & vexator vrbis. Cicer[o]. A spoy[l]er and sacker of a citie.1578, Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ, London: Henry Denham
   • 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?1743, Henry Fielding, “The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great”, in Miscellanies, volume 3, London: A. Millar, Book 1, Chapter 13, p. 80
2. A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
   • There are two men, known as sackers who, with the use of machinery, can fill 15,000 to 20,000 sacks a day.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
   1. Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”).
      • Know a grocery sacker with a pension like that?2012 April 13, Ross Ramsey, “Life of a Texas Lawmaker: Lousy Pay, Great Benefits”, in The Texas Tribune
3. A machine or device for filling sacks.
   • 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.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
4. 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 […]2014 January 18, Nick Harris, His impoverished club haven't known the glory days for 27 years but...
   • 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.2017 June 30, Joe Murphy, “Jeremy Corbyn: Glastonbury’s ‘hero of peace’ prepares to do battle with own Labour ranks to get his way”, in London Evening Standard
5. (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!1910, George Randolph Chester, chapter 15, in The Early Bird, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill
   • About forty years ago Pop was the third sacker for the old Sox when they got into their first World Series after twenty years.1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, New York: Time Reading Program, 1966, “Batter Up!” p. 56
6. 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.2017 August 26, Bob Wojnowski, “Wojo: Patriots hand Lions cold glimpse of reality”, in The Detroit News