Meaning & use
Cental
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A unit of weight equal to 100 pounds, formerly used chiefly for measuring grain in trade.
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Grain merchants once priced wheat by the cental rather than by the bushel.
The old ledger recorded shipments of barley in centals rather than modern metric tons.
A note on using this word
The cental was introduced in the nineteenth century partly to simplify grain trading by aligning weight with the decimal hundredweight system.
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