Rez (unit)

Rez was a French measure of weight for grain . It should be about ½ a bushel of rye in pounds. Like Rezal , measure was superseded by metric measures.

• Philippeville 1 rez = 52½ pounds
• Givet 1 rez = 42 pounds

literature

• Johann Georg Krünitz , Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke : Economic-technological encyclopedia of the land, house and state economy. Volume 123, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1813, p. 189.