Wey (unit)

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Wey was an English unit of mass for wool .

1 Wey = 1/24 load = ½ sack = 6 ½ tods = 13 stones / stone = 26 cloves = 82 545 grams

As a second term, it was an English measure of measure and commercial weight, see tun / ton.

See also

Anglo-American system of measurement

literature

Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag von Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 372.
Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or, Complete dictionary. Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, pp. 243, 778.