Definition of "wey"
wey
noun
plural weys
(uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
Quotations
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.
1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202
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.
1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms, page 410