carucate

[ kar-oo-keyt, -yoo- ]

noun

1. an old English unit of land-area measurement, varying from 60 to 160 acres.

Other Words From

• caru·cated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of carucate¹

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin carrūcāta, equivalent to car ( r ) ūc ( a ) plow, plow team ( Latin: traveling carriage, with the sense “wheeled plow” in Gaul (> French charru plow); akin to Latin carrus four-wheeled Gaulish wagon; car ¹ ) + -āta -ate ¹

Example Sentences

A Welshman in this manor had half a carucate, and rendered i. sextar of honey.

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Rather we regard the matter thus:—The geld is a land-tax, a tax of so much per hide or carucate.

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In the financial system, as we have said, the carucate plays for some counties the part that is played for others by the hide.

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Of the five hide unit I already knew a good deal; of the six carucate unit I knew nothing.

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If every inch of the vill is ploughed, the carucate can only have 75 acres, and each team tills but 60.

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