Meaning of Wey | Babel Free

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.

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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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