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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.
(quote-book) It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.|volume=27
{{quote-text|en|year=1882|author=James Edwin Thorold Rogers|title=A History of Agriculture and Prices in England|volume=4|page=208
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