What I Learned Today
A “stone” is a unit of weight equal to 14 pounds. It is now currently used primarily to measure the weight of people. So that puts me at a weight of something like 11.5 stone.
The stone, as a measure of weight, comes from old Roman measurements. Allegedly, King Edward III of England standardized that value based upon the weight of the “Big Rock” that was used as a standard measurement for items sold by weight.