Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wey

Wey , noun

Way; road; path. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Wey , verb, transitive and intransitive

To weigh. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Wey , noun

[Old English weye, Anglo-Saxon w{not transcribed}ge weight. {not transcribed}. See Weight.]

A certain measure of weight. [English]
A weye of Essex cheese. — Piers Plowman

A wey is 6{not transcribed} 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.