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wey

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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9
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8
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3
Pronunciation
/weɪ/

Definition of wey

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, uncommon)An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
    “Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.”
    “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.”
    “Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.”
    “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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noun

  1. (archaic, uncommon)An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
    “Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.”
    “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.”
    “Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.”
    “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.”

name

  1. A river in Surrey, England, a tributary to the Thames.
  2. A short river in Dorset, England, which flows from Upwey to the sea at Weymouth.
  3. (alt-of, alternative, historical)Alternative form of Wei, an ancient Chinese duchy.

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Etymology

From Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe, from Old English wǣġ (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”). Cognate with German Waage (“weight”), Icelandic vág (“a weight”).

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