Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Customary stone
into stone (unit).  As explained at that article, there were a large variety of stone weights used through Europe and the UK.  The ''customary stone'' here was a popular weight used by butchers which was 8 pounds of meat or cheese.  This appeared in tables of weights and measures in works such as https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TUMsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA423 Whitaker's Almanac, where it was contrasted with the legal stone of 14 pounds, which was commonly known as the ''horseman's weight'' because it was used to weigh jockeys in handicap races.   tells us to bring topics together by their meaning and the stone (unit) page seems to be best place to cover all this
— user:Andrew, 12:49, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:DICDEF (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)