The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woolman \Wool"man\, n.; pl. Woolmen. One who deals in wool.
Wiktionary
n. A man who deals in wool.
Wikipedia
Woolman is an English surname:
Those bearing it include:
- John Woolman (1720–1772), American religious leader and social activist
- Collett E. Woolman (1889–1966), airline entrepreneur
- S. Woolman (fl. 1910), 1910 Port Adelaide Magpies premiership player
- Edna Woolman Chase (1877–1957), fashion journalism entrepreneur
- Harry Woolman (1909-1996), stunt driver
- Eugenia Woolman (1916-2007), American artist
- Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman (b. 1953), British jurist
- Roger Woolman (fl. 2009), Irish music journalist at State (magazine)
- Steven Woolman
Usage examples of "woolman".
About the electronic version Journal of John Woolman Woolman, John creation of machine-readable version: Judy Boss.
About the print version The Journal of John Woolman John Woolman edited by: Eliot, Charles.
The winter following died my eldest sister Elizabeth Woolman, of the small-pox, aged thirty-one years.
In the fall of the year 1750 died my father, Samuel Woolman, of a fever, aged about sixty years.
The vessel reached London on the morning of the fifth day of the week, and John Woolman, knowing that the meeting was then in Session, lost no time in reaching it.
John Woolman sat silent for a space, seeking the unerring counsel of Divine Wisdom.
After a season of waiting, John Woolman felt that words were given him to utter as a minister of Christ.
I soon remembered that I was once John Woolman, and being assured that I was alive in the body, I greatly wondered what that heavenly voice could mean.
I asked them if they knew who I was, and they telling me I was John Woolman, thought I was light-headed, for I told them not what the angel said, nor was I disposed to talk much to any one, but was very desirous to get so deep that I might understand this mystery.
And he quoted two of his authorities, Heald and Woolman, of the State Agricultural Experiment Station, where he had studied for two years.
John Woolman, mystic and ascetic saint, without recognizing that he and others like-minded were nothing less than true apostles of the Lord Jesus.
The arguments of John Woolman and Anthony Benezet were sustained by the yearly meetings of the Friends.
Quakers in the abolition of slavery both in England and America, especially the life-long work of John Woolman in the colonies, is well known.
Quakers, or might have friends among the antislavery groups, led by such people as Woolman and Anthony Benezet, and Ben Franklin.
West Jersey near Mount Holly was born and lived John Woolman, a Quaker who became eminent throughout the English speaking world for the simplicity and loftiness of his religious thought as well as for his admirable style of expression.