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Meaning of WEY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Wey\, n.
    Way; road; path. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
    
  2. \Wey\, v. t. & i.
    To weigh. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
    
  3. \Wey\, n. [OE. weye, AS. w?ge weight. ????. See {Weight}.]
    A certain measure of weight. [Eng.] ``A weye of Essex
    cheese.'' --Piers Plowman.
    Note: A wey is 6? tods, or 182 pounds, of wool; a load, or
          five quarters, of wheat, 40 bushels of salt, each
          weighing 56 pounds; 32 cloves of cheese, each weighing
          seven pounds; 48 bushels of oats and barley; and from
          two cwt. to three cwt. of butter. --Simmonds.
    
 
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