wey

Also called a weight.

1

In England, an early medieval unit of dry capacity, = 32 bushels. The capacity of a wagon-load.

2

In England, 14th century, a unit of mass, 175 pounds avoirdupois.

A Sack of Wool ought to weigh Twenty-eight Stone, that is Three hundred and fifty Pounds, and in some parts Thirty Stone, that is Three hundred and seventy-five Pounds, and they are the same according to the greater or lesser Pound.

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There is a Weight, as well of Lead as of Wool, Tallow, and Cheese, and weigheth Fourteen Stone. And Two [Weights] of Wool make a Sack...

Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris.

Taking the stone at 12½ pounds makes the wey 175 pounds.

3

In England, 15th – 19th centuries, a unit of mass used for cheese, reestablished in 1430 as the result of a petition to the king at 224 pounds (= 32 cloves each of 7 pounds). This is half of the hundredweight of 112 pounds.

By the Statute of the 9th of Henry the 6th, A.D. 1430, Chap. 8th, after reciting the Practice of weighing cheese throughout England by the Auncel, and that Auncel, in Respect of the Deceit thereof, had been by Statute destroyed; and other weights, called Couching, should be used; and the People were, from their Ignorance, deceived by such Couching weights, it is enacted, That the Weight of a Wey of Cheese shall contain thirty-two Cloves, and every Clove 7 lb. by the said Weights Couching.

Report from the Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Original Standards of Weights and Measures in this Kingdom and to Consider the Laws relating thereto. [Carysfort Report.]
Reports from Committees of the House of Commons (1737-65) Vol II, pages 453-463.