Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The package in which wool was in former times done up for transportation and sale; specifically, a bundle or bale weighing 240 pounds.
- noun In heraldry, a bearing representing a sort of cushion usually having four tufts at the corners.
- noun Cirrocumulus cloud; a cloud made up of rolled masses, with a fleecy appearance.
- noun 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
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.
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- noun A
bag ofwool , traditionally weighing 240pounds .
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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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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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.
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
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