sac
A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluidA bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
» I accidentally ripped her dural sac.
Meaning
3 sensesA bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
a structure resembling a bag in an animal
(informal, transitive)A sacrifice.
Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.
(UK, historical)The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines; now used only in the phrase sac and soc or soc and sac.
Examples
24 sentencesI accidentally ripped her dural sac.
Sami was in a cul-de-sac.
Sami lived in a cul-de-sac.
Mennad went in the cul-de-sac.
Mennad lives in a cul-de-sac.
Origin
Borrowed from French sac. Doublet of saccus, sack, saco, and sakkos. Clipping of sacrificBorrowed from French sac. Doublet of saccus, sack, saco, and sakkos.
Clipping of sacrifice.
See sake, soc.
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