Stone

Stone, a weight formerly in use throughout the northern countries of Europe, but varying in different countries, and now mostly obsolete. The British imperial stone, the only legal one, is 14 lb.; but in various parts of the country stones of other values are or have been in use, as a stone of 24 lb. for wool, 8 lb. for butcher-meat, 22 lb. for hay, 7 lb. for oatmeal in Scotland, 16 lb. for cheese, 32 lb. for hemp, and 5 lb. for glass.