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From Brewer. Many years since I saw one. Sack Race (A). A village sport in which each runner is tied up to the neck in a sack. In some cases the candidates have to make short leaps, in other cases they are at liberty to run as well as the limits of the sack will allow them.
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Ditto.(incidentally, what is derivation of "ditto"?) Sackbut A corruption of sambuca. (Spanish, sacabuche; Portuguese, saquebuxo; French, saquebute; Latin, sacra buccina, sacred trumpet.) I think I remember this instrument being mentioned in Shakespeare. Today it suggests steatopygy.
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