Centners is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 196 anagrams from letters in centners (ceennrst).
1675-85 for sense “hundredweight”; Low German; compare German Zentner, Old High German centenari Latin centēnārius of a hundred; see centenary
At first sight it might appear from this statement that where Agricola uses the word centumpondium he means the German centner.
centner, sent′ner, n. a common name on the Continent for a hundredweight.
Therefore, less went to the farmers for their wheat per bushel or centner.