wey
nounEtymology
From Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe, from Old English wǣġ (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”). Cognate with German Waage (“weight”), Icelandic vág (“a weight”).
Definitions
An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds
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.
- Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.
A river in Surrey, England, a tributary to the Thames.
A short river in Dorset, England, which flows from Upwey to the sea at Weymouth.
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Alternative form of Wei, an ancient Chinese duchy.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA