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Wey  n.  A certain measure of weight. (Eng.) "A weye of Essex cheese." Note: A wey is 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.






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"Wey" Quotes from Famous Books



... poor boy was ready to die with fear, and begged of me not to go on shore till day. "Well, Xury," said I, "then I won't; but it may be we may see men by day, who will be as bad to us as those lions."—"Then we give them the shoot gun," says Xury, laughing, "make them run wey." Such English Xury spoke by conversing among us slaves. However, I was glad to see the boy so cheerful, and I gave him a dram (out of our patron's case of bottles) to cheer him up. After all, Xury's advice was good, and ...
— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe

... Forsothe sayd reyson I trow as I gesse. ryghwysnesse instead of At Vertu his castell ye may soone hym fynde. ryghtwysnesse If ye lyst the laboure thyder to take. And there shall ye know yf ye be not blynde. The next wey to the lord of lyght I vndertake. So thyder went Attropos petycyon to make. To ryghtwysnesse preyeng that he myght. Be take in to the seruyse of the lorde ...
— The Assemble of Goddes • Anonymous



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