Look up: Wey


  1. Wey
    Ancient Measurement Terms: Weight or volume. See: Cart-load. About 19½ hundredweight, dependent upon material. Also, 320 gallons, or 40 bushels, or 30 fotmal.
    Found op http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/measure.htm

  2. Wey
    Wey noun Way; road; path. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/26

  3. Wey
    Wey transitive verb & i. To weigh. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/26

  4. Wey
    Wey noun [ Middle English weye , Anglo-Saxon w...ge weight. ............. See Weight .] A certain measure of weight. [ Eng.] 'A weye of Essex cheese.' Piers Plowman. » A wey is 6... tods, or 182 pounds, ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/26

  5. Wey
    • (n.) Way; road; path. • (v. t. & i.) To weigh. • (n.) A certain measure of weight.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/wey/

  6. wey
    a historic English unit. The word comes from the old English wæge, meaning weight, and originally the wey was a weight unit representing about two hundredweight. Later it came to be used as a volume unit for a variety of dry commodities. Its size varied. Roughly speaking, the wey represented about ...
    Found op http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictW.html

  7. Wey
    [unit] A wey is a unit of mass used in England since before 900 CE. The value of a wey has varied over time though was originally used to denote 2 hundredweight or 256 pounds. It has also been used as a unit of volume for dry commodities, denoting roughly 40 bushels. The word is derived from...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wey_(unit)

  8. Wey
    [state] Wey ({zh|t=衞|s=卫|p=Wèi}, commonly spelled Wey to distinguish it from the other Wei state) was an ancient Chinese state that was founded in the Zhou Dynasty and rose to prominence during the Spring and Autumn Period. Its rulers were of the surname Ji (姬), the same as that of th...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wey_(state)

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