woolsackn.

Brit.

/ˈwʊlsak/, U.S.

/ˈwʊlˌsæk/

Etymology: < wool n. + sack n.¹ Compare Dutch wolzak, German wollsack.

a. A large package or bale of wool.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > wool > made up in packs or quantities > package of

woolsacka1300

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > sandbag

sandbag1590

earth sack1708

woolsack1715

a1300 Sat. People Kildare xi, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 154 Ȝe marchans wiþ ȝur gret packes of draperie..and ȝur wol sackes.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 99 Bot lich unto the wollesak Sche proferth hire unto this knyht.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 6 Sum say..that Wollesakkes be yn Ewelm in token of Marchaundise.

1575 G. Gascoigne Praise of Mistr. in Posies (1907) 55 I seeke to wey y^e woolsack down, with one poore pepper grain.

1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle Prol. sig. B1^v The rearing of London bridge vpon wool-sackes?

1657 J. Trapp Comm. Esther i. 10. 107 Having farced his body with good chear like a wool-sack.

1715 London Gaz. No. 5324/2 Woollsacks and other Materials of use in making a Siege.

1759 S. Johnson Idler 15 Dec. 393 As Woolsacks deaden Arrows though they cannot repel them.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxi. 12 Old London Bridge was built not ‘on woolsacks’, but out of the proceeds of a tax on wool.

b. Applied jocularly to a corpulent person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having

porknellc1540

porkling1541

porridge belly1580

tallow catch1598

woolsack1598

candle-mine1600

trillibub1600

bauson1607

panguts1617

firkin1630

porker1665

poke pudding1706

pudsy1710

jolluxa1797

fatty1797

fattener1817

rotundity1824

tun-butt1829

stout party1855

pig1858

fatlinga1861

slob1861

bladder of lard1864

butterball1877

lard-bladder1891

jelly-belly1896

tub1897

barrel1909

flop1909

pussy-gut1909

gutbucket1919

Billy Bunter1939

endomorph1940

Fatso1944

slug1959

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 135 How now Wolsacke, what mutter you?

2. A seat made of a bag of wool for the use of judges when summoned to attend the House of Lords (in recent practice only at the opening of Parliament); also, the usual seat of the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords, made of a large square bag of wool without back or arms and covered with cloth. Often allusively with reference to the position of the Lord Chancellor as the highest judicial officer; hence, the woolsack, the Lord-Chancellorship; on the woolsack, in this office.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > holder of office > high officials of state > [noun] > Lord High Chancellor or Great Seal > position of

chancelleryc1300

chancery1395

chancellorship1473

woolsack1583

chancellorate1870

society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > seat of judgement > specific

sack1539

woolsack1583

woolpacka1658

society > authority > office > holder of office > high officials of state > [phrase] > in the office of chancellor

on the woolsack1842

1539 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 10 §8 Suche of them as shall happen to be under the saide degree of a Baron, shall sitt..at the uppermost parte of the sakkes in the middes of the saide Parliament Chamber.]

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. ii. 37 In the middest thereof vppon woolsackes sitteth the Iudges of the realme, the master of the roules, and the secretaries of estate. But these that sit on the woolsacks haue no voice in the house.1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 123/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II In the middle roome beneath them sit the chiefe iustices and iudges of the realme, the barons of the excheker, the kings sergeants, and all such as be of the kings learned councell,..and all these sit upon great wooll sacks, couered with red cloth.1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 140 The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, upon the Wooll-sack.1710 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 23) 95 The Lord Chancellor..sits on the first Wool-Sack... Upon other Wool-Sacks sit the Judges, the King's Council at Law, and the Masters of Chancery.1737 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 536/2 The noble Lord on the Wool-Sack.1785 Rolliad xvi. 8 By G——d I swore, while George shall reign, The Seals, in spite of changes, to retain, Nor quit the Woolsack, till he quits the throne.1796 T. Morton Way to get Married i. i. 13 Caust. Pray stick to the law. Tang. And to the woolsack. Does not the hope of that..cram our courts full of barristers, with heads as empty as they leave their clients' pockets?1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 414 The Lord Chancellor took the Woolsack at one o'clock.1842 J. Wilson Christopher North (1857) I. 108 What seated Thurlow, and Wedderburne,..and Brougham on the woolsack? Work.1854 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Wks. (1906) III. 189 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success, it is paid in England..with seats in the cabinet, earldoms, and wool~sacks.1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret II. vi. 104 We are to be married,..elevated to the woolsack or debarred by our brother back benchers.1901 Empire Rev. 1 467 The woolsack is technically not in the House, a fact recognised by the Standing Orders which provide that when the Lord Chancellor wishes to speak he is ‘to go to his own place as a Peer’.attributive.1634 T. Carew Cœlum Britanicum 5 Though I am but a Woollsacke god, and have no vote in the sanction of new lawes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	woolsack
释义	woolsackn. Brit. /ˈwʊlsak/, U.S. /ˈwʊlˌsæk/ Etymology: < wool n. + sack n.¹ Compare Dutch wolzak, German wollsack. 1. a. A large package or bale of wool. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > wool > made up in packs or quantities > package of woolsacka1300 society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > sandbag sandbag1590 earth sack1708 woolsack1715 a1300 Sat. People Kildare xi, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 154 Ȝe marchans wiþ ȝur gret packes of draperie..and ȝur wol sackes. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 99 Bot lich unto the wollesak Sche proferth hire unto this knyht. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 6 Sum say..that Wollesakkes be yn Ewelm in token of Marchaundise. 1575 G. Gascoigne Praise of Mistr. in Posies (1907) 55 I seeke to wey y^e woolsack down, with one poore pepper grain. 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle Prol. sig. B1^v The rearing of London bridge vpon wool-sackes? 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Esther i. 10. 107 Having farced his body with good chear like a wool-sack. 1715 London Gaz. No. 5324/2 Woollsacks and other Materials of use in making a Siege. 1759 S. Johnson Idler 15 Dec. 393 As Woolsacks deaden Arrows though they cannot repel them. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxi. 12 Old London Bridge was built not ‘on woolsacks’, but out of the proceeds of a tax on wool. b. Applied jocularly to a corpulent person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having porknellc1540 porkling1541 porridge belly1580 tallow catch1598 woolsack1598 candle-mine1600 trillibub1600 bauson1607 panguts1617 firkin1630 porker1665 poke pudding1706 pudsy1710 jolluxa1797 fatty1797 fattener1817 rotundity1824 tun-butt1829 stout party1855 pig1858 fatlinga1861 slob1861 bladder of lard1864 butterball1877 lard-bladder1891 jelly-belly1896 tub1897 barrel1909 flop1909 pussy-gut1909 gutbucket1919 Billy Bunter1939 endomorph1940 Fatso1944 slug1959 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 135 How now Wolsacke, what mutter you? View more context for this quotation 2. A seat made of a bag of wool for the use of judges when summoned to attend the House of Lords (in recent practice only at the opening of Parliament); also, the usual seat of the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords, made of a large square bag of wool without back or arms and covered with cloth. Often allusively with reference to the position of the Lord Chancellor as the highest judicial officer; hence, the woolsack, the Lord-Chancellorship; on the woolsack, in this office. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > high officials of state > [noun] > Lord High Chancellor or Great Seal > position of chancelleryc1300 chancery1395 chancellorship1473 woolsack1583 chancellorate1870 society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > seat of judgement > specific sack1539 woolsack1583 woolpacka1658 society > authority > office > holder of office > high officials of state > [phrase] > in the office of chancellor on the woolsack1842 1539 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 10 §8 Suche of them as shall happen to be under the saide degree of a Baron, shall sitt..at the uppermost parte of the sakkes in the middes of the saide Parliament Chamber.] 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. ii. 37 In the middest thereof vppon woolsackes sitteth the Iudges of the realme, the master of the roules, and the secretaries of estate. But these that sit on the woolsacks haue no voice in the house.1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 123/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II In the middle roome beneath them sit the chiefe iustices and iudges of the realme, the barons of the excheker, the kings sergeants, and all such as be of the kings learned councell,..and all these sit upon great wooll sacks, couered with red cloth.1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 140 The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, upon the Wooll-sack.1710 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 23) 95 The Lord Chancellor..sits on the first Wool-Sack... Upon other Wool-Sacks sit the Judges, the King's Council at Law, and the Masters of Chancery.1737 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 536/2 The noble Lord on the Wool-Sack.1785 Rolliad xvi. 8 By G——d I swore, while George shall reign, The Seals, in spite of changes, to retain, Nor quit the Woolsack, till he quits the throne.1796 T. Morton Way to get Married i. i. 13 Caust. Pray stick to the law. Tang. And to the woolsack. Does not the hope of that..cram our courts full of barristers, with heads as empty as they leave their clients' pockets?1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 414 The Lord Chancellor took the Woolsack at one o'clock.1842 J. Wilson Christopher North (1857) I. 108 What seated Thurlow, and Wedderburne,..and Brougham on the woolsack? Work.1854 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Wks. (1906) III. 189 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success, it is paid in England..with seats in the cabinet, earldoms, and wool~sacks.1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret II. vi. 104 We are to be married,..elevated to the woolsack or debarred by our brother back benchers.1901 Empire Rev. 1 467 The woolsack is technically not in the House, a fact recognised by the Standing Orders which provide that when the Lord Chancellor wishes to speak he is ‘to go to his own place as a Peer’.attributive.1634 T. Carew Cœlum Britanicum 5 Though I am but a Woollsacke god, and have no vote in the sanction of new lawes. 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