Wey

Definitions

1. An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
   archaic, uncommon
2. A river in Surrey, England, a tributary to the Thames.
3. A short river in Dorset, England, which flows from Upwey to the sea at Weymouth.

Equivalents

Examples

“Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.”

“Seven pounds make⟳ a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6½ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last⟳. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.”

“Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.”

“WEY, WEIGH⟳, an English measure⟳ of weight; for wool, equal to 6½ tods of 28 lbs.; a load⟳ or five quarters of wheat; 40 bushels of salt, each 56 lbs.; 32 cloves of cheese, each 7 lbs.; 48 bushels of oats and barley; 2 to 3 cwt. of butter.”

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