Talk:sack
How many pounds to a sack?[edit]
The Penny Cyclopaedia quotes a sack as being 13 tods of 28 pounds, that is 364 pounds. Thorold Rogers however claims it is 13 stones of 14 pounds, that is 182 pounds. How dramatic! Will we ever know the true answer? Ratfox 19:50, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense: To hit in the groin. The three usage examples are not from qualifying sources and are not unambiguously clear as to meaning. Sense not in OneLook dictionaries. Nor is "scrotum" or "sac" sense of noun. DCDuring TALK 05:06, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
- I've always said I was more than willing to take in "lesser" quality quote for slangish meanings because by definition they are used in much more informal contexts than the other. Also, dude, did you check the contexts? That third one is a vid of the thing, how less ambiguous could it be? Circeus 10:38, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
- I didn't check the links once I had established that it was not from one of our usual sources of durably archived media. If this is community acceptable, then it would provide a useful precedent for a means of documenting such terms. DCDuring TALK 11:31, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
- The way I see it, no website whatsoever can be considered an absolutely "durably archived" media. Some sites are just more volatile. Given the difficulty of separating this meaning from others, I was willing to consider it verified until better citations could be found in better sources. Circeus 12:36, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
- I didn't check the links once I had established that it was not from one of our usual sources of durably archived media. If this is community acceptable, then it would provide a useful precedent for a means of documenting such terms. DCDuring TALK 11:31, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hmm... I'm not sure if this is very relevant but here in Ireland I have heard sacktap/sack-tap/sack tap(I'm not sure which spelling(s) is/are right.) used for that sense. Funny how it always seems that slang here in Ireland can be shrouded with such uncertainty as regards spelling, e.g. according to a book of Irish slang I have beoir(pronounced bee-ore or something like that) is "Travellers' cant" for a woman but I have have heard a word of similar if not identical pronunciation used to mean a "hot" or attractive woman/girl.--50 Xylophone Players talk 23:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
RFV failed, sense removed. —RuakhTALK 00:44, 18 June 2009 (UTC)