wey

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. n. An amount of window-glass—60 cases.
4. Obsolete spellings of weigh.
5. n. An obsolete form of way.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete Way; road; path.
2. v. obsolete To weigh.
3. n. engraving A certain measure of weight.