clove

kynsi

mausteneilikka puhekieltä A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
puhekieltä A (vern), of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. (taxlink)), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
puhekieltä An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
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. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.

By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.