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"ref": "c. 1376, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91",
"text": "Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese."
},
{
"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",
"text": "WEY, WEIGH, an English measure of weight; for wool, equal to 6½ tods of 28 lbs.; a load or five quarters of wheat; 40 bushels of salt, each 56 lbs.; 32 cloves of cheese, each 7 lbs.; 48 bushels of oats and barley; 2 to 3 cwt. of butter.",
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"(uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight."
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"ref": "c. 1376, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91",
"text": "Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese."
},
{
"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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms, page 410",
"text": "WEY, WEIGH, an English measure of weight; for wool, equal to 6½ tods of 28 lbs.; a load or five quarters of wheat; 40 bushels of salt, each 56 lbs.; 32 cloves of cheese, each 7 lbs.; 48 bushels of oats and barley; 2 to 3 cwt. of butter.",
"type": "quotation"
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"An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight."
],
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