Definitions
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- n. A bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The package in which wool was in former times done up for transportation and sale; specifically, a bundle or bale weighing 240 pounds.
- n. In heraldry, a bearing representing a sort of cushion usually having four tufts at the corners.
- n. Cirrocumulus cloud; a cloud made up of rolled masses, with a fleecy appearance.
- n. A concretionary mass of crystalline limestone in the beds of earthy and impure calcareous rock of which the Wenlock limestone is made up. These concretionary masses vary in size from a few inches up to 80 feet in diameter. Also called ballstone
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is as if the final wrought iron bang is the signal for the seams of the woolpack above us to be ripped open, and ablution to fall.
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Church of S. Caterina, and carved their arms, a woolpack fastened with ropes, over the door.
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These are the 'woolpack clouds,' which, in summer time, throw deep shadows on the grass.
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John Fortey, who rebuilt the nave before he died in 1458; his brass shows him with one foot on a sheep and the other on a woolpack, and the brasses of Thomas Fortey, 'woolman', and of another unknown merchant, with a woolpack, lie near by.
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Finest of all, perhaps, are the brasses of the wool staplers, with feet resting on woolpack or sheep; but there are many other merchants too.
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They both have their feet on woolpacks, and on the son's woolpack is his merchant's mark.
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But all these excitations would, I confess, have spent their artillery in vain against the woolpack of my imagination; and after well considering the scene, I could not help looking at my companion with surprise: to me, the triumph of true genius seemed never more conspicuous, than in the construction of so interesting a poem out of such common-place materials.
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By these means, the storm rising in Mrs. Atkinson before was in some measure laid, at least suspended from bursting at present; but it fell afterwards upon the poor serjeant's head in a torrent, who had learned perhaps one maxim from his trade, that a cannon-ball always doth mischief in proportion to the resistance it meets with, and that nothing so effectually deadens its force as a woolpack.
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a castle-wall or a rampart, but none at all upon a woolpack.
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"He!" said Father Philemy, "he has no more voice than a woolpack; but Con's a cunning fellow.
Nemo774 commented on the word woolpack
“John Fortey, who rebuilt the nave before he died in 1458; his brass shows him with one foot on a sheep and the other on a woolpack, and the brasses of Thomas Fortey, 'woolman', and of another unknown merchant, with a woolpack, lie near by.”
October 4, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word woolpack
I'm waiting for some woolpack clouds so I can use this word.
These are the 'woolpack clouds,' which, in summer time, throw deep shadows on the grass. —The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
May 3, 2010