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woolpack en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds.
   • 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. 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]:
2. A cirrocumulus cloud.
   • During the following hour, the high white fleecy clouds lowered and congested and grayed into woolpack. 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 10:
3. A charge resembling a pillow or cushion.

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