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Meanings of centner in English
Catalan
quintar A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
Catalan
quintar Synonyms
Examples for "cwt"
Examples for "cwt"
1
I noticed in your Fair Isle order-book an entry of 2 cwt.
2
If this supplies as much ammonia to the soil as 3 cwt.
3
Forty shovelfuls of clinkers and twelve of slaked lime make 7 cwt.
4
His proposal was substantially a protective duty of twenty shillings the cwt.
5
The operation is inexpensive, as a very small quantity suffices, one cwt.
1
Several hundredweight of burnt clay must have fallen to the floor there.
2
From three to four hundredweight of salt was used for each hogshead.
3
Sometimes they are ten hundredweight, and hold one hundred and five bushels.
4
Why increase my burdens by a hundredweight or so of Easthaven beach?
5
The price of sugar in 1803 was fifty-two shillings a hundredweight.
1
Sheepskins eight dollars the hundred, bullock-skins three dollars per quintal, and goat-skins the same.
2
The Spanish quintal nearly equals 100 English pounds.
3
He pulled down a quintal bag of coffee.
4
I'd give a quintal fer the chance.
5
Samuels only allowed we four dollars a quintal, and his flour was eight, and molasses seventy cents.
1
Ten meters down the cental corridor, Sol found the blanket Brawne had been wrapped in.
2
The airship does not float safely in the cental blue, aside from attacks by flying foes.
3
Wanting a two-eighths more the cental.
4
In contrast, Hadoop moves the analytic computation to where the data resides, eliminating the need for a cental, giant number-crunching machine.
5
Seventy-two hours after challenge with L. monocytogenes, the livers of fed mice had multiple microabscesses with cental necrosis and a poor mononuclear response.
Usage of centner in English
1
Waltershausen estimates the annual consumption of that mineral for this single purpose at 850,000 centner, or more than forty thousand tons.
2
(15 centner), and it has the form as is here drawn; it stood behind on the fish's head.
3
We had for every one of our corps twelve shot apiece, and in the rear a sufficiency of centners of powder, with ball and match.
4
There are now, in Borislau, 25 melting works, which, in 1877, with 1 steam and 60 fire kettles, produced 95,000 metric centners (9,500,000 lb.