carucate

American  

[kar-oo-keyt, -yoo-] / ˈkær ʊˌkeɪt, -yʊ- /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• carucated adjective

Etymology

Origin of carucate

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

Mildenehalla dedit Rex Edwardus Sancto Edmundo et post tenuit Stigandus sub Sancto Edmundo in vita Regis Edwardi pro manerio xij carucate terre tunc et post xxx uillani modo xxxiij.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

The carucate was not identical with the hide, but carucate and hide alike had originally meant a unit corresponding to a plough-team.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

Here we have a decided instance of the variation in the number of acres represented by the carucate.

From Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

Car′ucage, a tax on the carucate, first imposed by Richard I. in 1198.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

"Et ibidem iiij. carucate terre, que continent vc acras terre et apud le Wodehous iij carucate terre, que continent iijc: pretium acre, vjd."

From Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George