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Cental

Cental \Cen"tal\, n. Relating to a hundred.

Cental system, the method of buying and selling by the cental, or hundredweight.

Cental

Cental \Cen"tal\, n. [L. centum a hundred.] A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.

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cental

a. Relating to a hundred. n. A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds; hundredweight.

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cental

n. a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds [syn: hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, quintal]

Usage examples of "cental".

The fort was complete with four guard towers, one at each corner, and a spacious cental compound with headquarters, a barracks, and a corral.

I read of a disaster in China already replaced in our finite capacities for horror by a disaster in Cental America.

She was shown into the cental courtyard by a beautiful young woman wearing the colors of Ishel and Railiu in the thin dark braids scattered through her heavy hair.

The produce, I was told, was equal to fifty bushels to the acre, but the reckoning was in centals, and indeed decimal coinage and decimal weights and measures had been adopted so long ago that most people had forgotten our old standard.

Tallgrass and short steppe grasses and herbs, feather grasses and fescues, the cental steppic plains were an extraordinarily rich, abundantly productive grassland blowing in the wind.

Several hundred seals were draped over the rocks, and there were many more bobbing about in the waves that broke over the rocky point, and the stench of them came to Cental the on the wind.