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"ref": "1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 208:",
"text": "Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.",
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"ref": "1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms, page 410:",
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