weyl (wa)

[ statute of 1430 declares that cheese shall not be weighed by the ouncel, but by the wey of 32 cloves, each clove of 7 pounds, except in E ex, where it is 256 pounds, or 32 cloves of 7 pounds. But locally it was 3 hundredweight, or 416 pounds. Hence-2. A unit of measure, properly 40 bushels. Soa statute of George III. makes a wey of salt one ton, which is 40 bushels. But another statute of the same monarch makes a wey of meal 48 bushels of 84 pounds each; and in Devons hire a wey of lime, coals, or culm was sometimes 48 double Winchester bushels. So in South Wales a wey of coals is 6, not 5, chaldrons. 3. An amount of window-gla -60 cases. [Eng. in all uses.]