Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word WOOLSACK
WOOLSACK
Definitions of WOOLSACK
- A bag or bale of wool.
- A seat made of wool; (specifically) the traditional seat of the British Lord Chancellor (since 2006 of the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords); hence (by metonymy) the post of Lord-Chancellor.
- Synonym of corestone
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using WOOLSACK in a Sentence
- In the 14th century, King Edward III (1327–1377) said that his Lord Chancellor, while in council, should sit on a wool bale, now known as "The Woolsack", to symbolise the central nature and great importance of the wool trade to the economy of England in the Middle Ages.
- Originally, the Lord Chancellor in court dress (including a tricorn hat), or a Deputy Speaker in parliamentary robes, would occupy the Woolsack.
- During his tenure on the woolsack, Halsbury was accused of favouring conservative lawyers for judicial appointments, although the consideration of political allegiances for judicial appointments was a common practice at the time, and later commentators have blamed bad luck for the failure of several of the judges he appointed.
- He sat on the Woolsack for three years, and in 1919, on his retirement, was created Viscount Finlay, of Nairn in the County of Nairn on 27 March.
- Following this, the player and Longarm begin to take Beauregard's lands, while Woolsack opens a second front against Truffe.
- After stepping down from the woolsack, Buckmaster continued to sit judicially as a Lord of Appeal, except for a time when he left his judicial work to go into the City.
- Among the lasting monuments to the success of the trade are the 'wool churches' of East Anglia and the Cotswolds; the 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, a chair stuffed with wool.
- Marilla Ricker, who had an immense practice in Washington, and was the only living woman at the time who ever sat on the woolsack beside the Lord Chief Justice of England; Clara Shortridge Foltz, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Los Angeles, and Phoebe Couzins.
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