poundstone

1) Probably a natural stone or pebble of a pound weight.

1668 one paire of weigh scales & 1 pundstone, 6s, Selby. As pundston it is in the Whitby Glossary, said to have been used by farmers whose butter was weighed by the lang pund of twenty-two ounces.

places Selby
dates 1668

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