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What is a woolsack?

What is a woolsack? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A wool bale or cushion, the traditional seat of the Lord Speaker in the British House of Lords.
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The Lord Chancellor was not on the Woolsack to hear the debate, which Lord Goodhart insisted was not directed at him personally.
But I'm afraid it wouldn't do, even if I wrote them in secret, under the woolsack.
While the judges' woolsack struggled to fit some of the more generous noble behinds, there were a few empty spaces on the benches.
If he 'd have gone to the bar, he'd have ended on the woolsack.
Many familiar figures from the recent past now debate and scrutinise legislation before the chamber's golden throne and stuffed woolsack.
A military lord rose to order, and appealed to the woolsack.

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