wey

plural weys

1. archaicuncommonAn old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.

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

   c. 1376, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91

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   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.

   1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202

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

   1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 208

   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.

   1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms, page 410

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. alternativehistoricalAlternative form of Wei, an ancient Chinese duchy.