kouza

In Cyprus, 19ᵗʰ – 20ᵗʰ century, a unit of liquid capacity, by a law enacted 20 May 1890 (No. XI., 1890)² = 9 imperial quarts (approximately 10.229 liters, or 2.70 U.S. gallons). 16 kouzas = 1 load.

See also cuse, which is probably the same unit.

1. United Nations, 1966.

2. Henry J. Chaney.
Our Weights and Measures. A Practical Treatise on the Standard Weights and Measures in use in the British Empire...
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897.

Page 42.

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