woolpack

English

Etymology

From Middle English wolpak, wullepak, equivalent to wool +‎ pack.

Noun

woolpack (plural woolpacks)

  1. A bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds.
    • 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.
  2. 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.
  3. (heraldry) A charge resembling a pillow or cushion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “woolpack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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