(uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
wye
wye
noun
(poetic, obsolete) A hero; a man, person.
(poetic, obsolete) A warrior or fighter.
A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
The name of the Latin-script letter Y.
verb
(transitive) To make something into a wye shape.
(transitive, rail transport) To reverse the direction of a train using a wye.
yew
yew
adj
Made from the wood of the yew tree.
noun
(countable) A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
(countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.
