Definition of "woolsack" []

• A sack for wool. (noun)
• The official seat of the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords. (noun)

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• "We seated Ellesmere on one that we called the woolsack, but which he said he felt himself unworthy to occupy in the presence of King Log, pointing to mine."
• "But when he shook hands with Lady Hayman, the Lords Speaker who was sitting on the woolsack, a cheer went up around the chamber and at last Prescott smiled."
• "Then he headed for the Lord Speaker, Lady Hayman, sitting on the woolsack, and bopped her with a straight left."