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centner|ˈsɛntnə(r)|
[a. Ger. centner, ad. L. centēnārius relating to a hundred.]
1. A measure of weight used in Germany.
1683Phil. Trans. XIII. 190 A centner or hundred weight. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. vii. lxxxviii. 408, 120 [Pounds] 1 centner. 1861Leeds Mercury 2 Nov., The Furstenberg works use about 10,000 centners of cast iron..and produce yearly from 80,000 to 100,000 centners of raw iron. 1875Ure Dict. Arts I. 756 The Zollverein Centner contains 110·231 English lbs. avoirdupois.
†2. Proposed as a name for what was at length called the cental. Obs.
1862Rep. Sel. Parl. Comm. Weights & Meas. (Evidence of Prof. Leone Levi) §37.
3. Metallurgy. (See quot.)
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Hundred, Centner in metallurgy and assaying is a weight divisible first into an hundred and thence into a great number of other smaller parts..The centner of the metallurgists contains an hundred pounds, the centner of the assayers is really no more than one dram, to which the other parts are proportioned. |