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wey | wery |

As a noun wey

is an old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.

As a proper noun Wey

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

As an adverb wery is

eye dialect of lang=en.

As an adjective wery is

eye dialect of lang=en.

wey

English

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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    * * English terms with homophones ----

    wery

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author= , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=176 , passage='Wery',' says my father. — ' You must have a bad mem'ry Mr. Weller,' says the gen'l'm'n, — 'Well, it is a ' wery bad 'un,' says my father.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author=William Burton , title=Burton's comic songster citation , page=59 , passage=There was thomething about it tho wery pekooliar!}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1844 , author=Lawrence Ladree , title=Lyman Grubbs: An Autobiography of a Lamp-Post citation , page=25 , passage=It was jest sich a night as this— wery' cold — '''wery'''. ... It's a good while past sunset with me; and what makes it worse, it's '''wery''' cloudy — '''wery'''. ... I come and stood on this 'ere ' wery corner, and asked myself if I should take the watch back.}}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1837 , author= , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=85 , passage='Not half so strange as a miraculous circumstance as happened to my own father, at an election time, in this wery place, Sir,' replied Sam.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1897 , author=Walter Rye , title=The Pickwick Papers citation , page=144 , passage=... what a nice quiet place that is, Tungate, just the wery place I should like to get my tea at, so we puts ashore and lights a fire, and boils our kittle ...}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1903 , author=Charles Longman , title=Longman's magazine, Vol. 41 citation , page=232 , passage='Well, there now,' said Julia, 'that dew be a coincident, ter be sure! Here, mother, here be th' wery thing we wants.'}}