Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A unit of weight, 14 stone according to the old statute de ponderihus. But a wey of wool is 6½ tods, or 13 stone; locally, 30, 30½, or 31 pounds. A wey of hemp was 30 pounds in Somersetshire, 32 pounds in Dorsetshire, being 8 heads of 4 pounds, twisted and tied. A statute of 1430 declares that cheese shall not be weighed by the ouncel, but by the wey of 32 cloves, each clove, of 7 pounds, except in Essex, where it is 256 pounds, or 32 cloves of 7½ pounds. But locally it was 3 hundredweight, or 416 pounds.
- n. Hence A unit of measure, properly 40 bushels. So a statute of George III. makes a wey of salt one ton, which is 40 bushels. But another statute of the same monarch makes a wey of meal 48 bushels of 84 pounds each; and in Devonshire a wey of lime, coals, or culm was sometimes 48 double Winchester bushels. So in South Wales a wey of coals is 6, not 5, chaldrons.
- n. An amount of window-glass—60 cases.
- Obsolete spellings of weigh.
- n. An obsolete form of way.
- n. An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Way; road; path.
- v. obsolete To weigh.
- n. engraving A certain measure of weight.
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘wey’.
Most of these are names of weights and measures in use before 1500, gleaned from household accounts of English estates and colleges.
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
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