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wey
/weɪ/
name 3noun 1
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2VERB + WEY
purchased
WEY + NOUN
hundredweight, weys
Definitions
noun
1
An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
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.
name
1
A river in Surrey, England, a tributary to the Thames.
2
A short river in Dorset, England, which flows from Upwey to the sea at Weymouth.
3
Alternative form of Wei, an ancient Chinese duchy.
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Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.
Wiktionary02
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 i
Wiktionary03
Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.
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