sackcloth : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sackcloth	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for sackcloth
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sackcloth n a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse a coarse cloth resembling sacking
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sackcloth \Sack"cloth`\ (?; 115), n. Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence. Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. --2 Sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. --Sandys.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Sackcloth cloth made of black goats' hair, coarse, rough, and thick, used for sacks, and also worn by mourners (Gen. 37:34; 42:25; 2 Sam. 3:31; Esther 4:1, 2; Ps. 30:11, etc.), and as a sign of repentance (Matt. 11:21). It was put upon animals by the people of Nineveh (Jonah 3:8).