Meanings of centner in English

Waltershausen estimates the annual consumption of that mineral for this single purpose at 850,000 centner, or more than forty thousand tons.

(15 centner), and it has the form as is here drawn; it stood behind on the fish's head.

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.

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.