>From Emily Smith. Geo. I was doing an article and needed a definition of "cental", so I thought I would send it out. cental mass Metric 100 kg (220.46∼ lb). US-C 100 lb (45.359∼ kg) = (short) hundredweight. BI 1859 ( cH , centner , kintal , new hundredweight ) 100 lb (45.359∼ kg), usually for grains; British (long) hundredweight of 112 lb, called also quintal. Removed from official measures by Statutory Instrument 2484 of 1978, Connor R. D. The Weights and Measures of England (London: HMSO, 1987) and by formal Act in 1985.The UK Weights and Measures Act 1985 explicitly excluded from use for trade the bushell, cental, chain, drachm, dram, fluid drachm, furlong, grain, hundredweight, ... -- Emily Smith