(Now usually as two words.) A measure of weight: = STONE sb. 14. Also, a piece of metal of this weight, used in weighing, or as a standard.
a. 1400. [see STONE sb. 14).
1552. Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870), I. 2. The stane wecht of Lanark.
1628. in Maitl. Club Misc., III. 369. For bringing from Edinburgh to Stirling xiij stane wecht of Calk oyle and Culloures.
1658. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., II. 33. If a pound weighs down the scale, there is no doubt then but a stone weight will do it.
1835. Act 5 & 6 Will. IV., c. 63 § 11. By local Customs … the Denomination of the Stone Weight varies.
