WEYとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: wā, IPA^(key): /weɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ
• 異形同音異義語: way, weigh, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

名詞

wey (複数形 weys)

1. (まれに, archaic) 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^[1], volume 27, page 202:

     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.

   • 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.

   • 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms‎^[2], page 410:

     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.