Wey
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /weɪ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wey is a noun meaning (uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
Meaning
(uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
Example Sentences
Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.
Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- weys
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include waye, waight, wight, fotmal, weyve, last.
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