cental

From Latin centum (“a hundred”) +‎ -al, perhaps modeled after quintal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛntəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

cental (plural centals)

1. (historical) A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds.

   Synonym: (Canada, US) hundredweight

   • 1873 April, Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture, page 206:

     Thin native steers, dressing 56 pounds per cwt., $10.50 per cental;

   • 1888, C. Frusher Howard, Howard's Anglo-American art of reckoning, page 75:

     The practice of buying or selling grain by the 100 pounds, or the cental system, is becoming almost universal, and has many advantages over the old practice of selling grain by the bushel.

   • 1901 July 6, Arthur F. Dodd, “Corn Options and Cotton Futures: Their Object and Effect upon Commercial Transactions”, in The Accountant, page 783:

     John Hudson & Co. are prepared to undertake the business at a ½d. per cental advance on the price of wheat on 4th July 19000, which is 6s. 5½d. per cental, thus obtaining 6s. 6d. per cental as the contract price.

cental (not comparable)

1. Relating to a hundred.
2. Pertaining to a cent (unit of currency, typically worth 1/100 of the base unit of currency).

   cental coins

   • 1930, Tanganyika, “East African Rupee and Florin Currency”, in Official Gazette, page 470:

     Cental coin will be exchanged at the rate of two cents of a shilling for one cent of a rupee or florin .

   • 1947, Saben's Commercial Directory and Handbook of Uganda, page 302:

     The one shilling pieces and all denominations of notes, Shs. 1/-, 5/-, 10/-, 20/-, 100/-, and 1000/- are legal tender up to any amount, while fifty cent pieces and cental coin are legal tender up to Shs. 20/- and Shs. 1/- respectively.

   • 2015, John Meaney, Dark Blood:

     Harald joined a short queue, handed over a 13- cental coin , and took his pentagonal pink ticket .

• Lancet, cantel, cantle, lancet