woolpack
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English wolpak, wullepak, equivalent to wool + pack.
Noun edit
woolpack (plural woolpacks)
- A bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds.[1]
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Country Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 220:
- There was a Fellow with a Wen in his Neck, larger than five Woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden Legs, each about twenty foot high.
- A cirrocumulus cloud.
- 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 10:
- During the following hour, the high white fleecy clouds lowered and congested and grayed into woolpack.
- (heraldry) A charge resembling a pillow or cushion.
References edit
- ^ “woolpack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.