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woolsack (ˈwʊlsæk) [f. wool n. + sack n.1 Cf. Du. wolzak, G. wollsack.] 1. A large package or bale of wool.a 1300 Sat. People Kildare xi. in E.E.P. (1862) 154 Ȝe marchans wiþ ȝur gret packes of draperie..and ȝur wol sackes. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 99 Bot lich unto the wollesak Sche proferth hire unto th...
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Woolsack
The original woolsack is still extant. In front of the Woolsack is an even larger cushion known as the Judges' Woolsack.
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Château Woolsack
The Château Woolsack or Château de Woolsack or The Woolsack is a former hunting lodge located in the commune of Mimizan in the department of Landes in See also
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Châteaux in Landes (department)
Buildings and structures completed in 1911
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Tetbury Woolsack Races
steepest street in the town carrying a full woolsack on their back. External links
Official Woolsack Day website
BBC Gloucestershire coverage of the Tetbury Woolsack Races
BBC Gloucestershire feature on the Tetbury Woolsack
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Reichenbach (Hornberg)
In the parish there are numerous woolsack rocks, of which the Igellochfelsen is the best known.
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Sack (unit)
Wool
The wool sack or woolsack ( or ) was standardized as 2 wey of 14 stone each, with each stone merchants' pounds each (i.e. 350 merchants' pounds or References
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Tetbury woolsack race
Units of mass
Customary units of measurement
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Mimizan
After its purchase by the Gascogne Group, the Woolsack Castle is today privately owned. Couturier Coco Chanel was a frequent holidaymaker at the Château Woolsack.
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Charles Beauclerk (author)
the first step of the throne, as was his right as the eldest son of a peer, Beauclerk leapt to his feet, crossed the floor of the House, stood on the Woolsack However following his dramatic exploits leaping onto the Woolsack that year, he left Hagger's employ and the selection of 92 poems remained undisturbed
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Aschberg
Not far from the peak there are other outcrops formed by woolsack weathering, the most famous of which is the group of rocks called Tři skalky; the name
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Medieval English wool trade
London Worshipful Company of Clothworkers; and the fact that since the fourteenth century, the presiding officer of the House of Lords has sat on the Woolsack Key statistics
The table charts English woolsack and broadcloth exports, in five-year means, 1281–1545.
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Geoffrey Lofthouse
He also wrote a further autobiography, From Coal Sack to Woolsack.
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Hapuka River
It flows from near The Woolsack north-west to join the Okuru and Turnbull Rivers just before they enter the Tasman Sea.
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Charles Hooton
He was sub-editor of The True Sun and editor of The Woolsack, both short-lived newspapers, in the one attacking political economy and the other the court
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Detmar Blow
Blow designed various properties for Hugh "Bendor" Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, including the Château Woolsack, a hunting lodge at Mimizan in France Château Woolsack, Mimizan, France (1912). A hunting lodge for the 2nd Duke of Westminster.
Hilles, Harescombe, Gloucestershire (started in 1913).
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Lord Speaker
The Lord Speaker thus elected then replaced the Lord Chancellor on the Woolsack. When presiding over debates, the Lord Speaker sits on the Woolsack.
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