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Wey vs Bey - What's the difference?

wey | bey |

As nouns the difference between wey and bey

is that wey is an old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight while bey is a governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg.

As a proper noun Wey

is an English river which flows through Guildford, and is a tributary of the Thames.

wey

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Noun

(en noun)
  • An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
  • * c. 1376 , William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman , Version B, Passus 5, Line 91:
    • Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.
  • * 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202:
    • Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 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.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 208:
    • Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.
  • * (rfdate): A wey is 6 tods, or 182 pounds, of wool; a load, or five quarters, of wheat, 40 bushels of salt, each weighing 56 pounds; 32 cloves of cheese, each weighing seven pounds; 48 bushels of oats and barley; and from two cwt. to three cwt. of butter. — Simmonds.

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    bey

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 512:
    • She was chaperoned by the widow of a Bey whose son had been at Oxford with him, and this gave him the excuse to exchange a few words with her, and then to be presented to the Princess.
  • * 2005 , Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade , p. 15:
    • Whether his position with the Third Circle made the difference or the fact that he ranked as a bey , life in El Iskandryia was proving easier than he'd ever dreamed possible when he stepped off the plane.

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