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woolpack

woolpack noun: a bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds.

Noun

woolpack (plural woolpacks)

  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...
  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.

woolpack meaning in Tamil

woolpack in Tamil

கம்பளி அளவுச் சிப்பம்

Forms of woolpack

pluralwoolpacks

Origin of woolpack

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

Questions about woolpack

What does woolpack mean?
Woolpack means a bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds.
What is woolpack in Tamil?
Woolpack in Tamil is கம்பளி அளவுச் சிப்பம். See Woolpack meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is woolpack?
Woolpack is a noun.
What is the plural of woolpack?
The plural of woolpack is woolpacks.

Words near woolpack in the dictionary

  1. woolocks
  2. Woolomin
  3. Woolooma
  4. Woolooware
  5. Wooloweyah
  6. woolpack
  7. woolpacker
  8. woolpackers
  9. woolpacks
  10. woolpated
  11. Woolpit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woolpack (page history and authors); woolpack (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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