sacking

A coarse, stout woven cloth, such as burlap or gunny, used for making sacks; sackcloth.

A coarse fabric of hemp or flax, of which sacks, bags, etc., are made: also used for other purposes where strength and durability are required. Compare sacking-bottomed.

The act of plundering or pillaging, after storming and taking, as a house or a city.

Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.

Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).