carucate
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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; see car 1) + -āta -ate 1
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For Kent, however, the word sullung or solin, is used in Domesday Book and in the charters instead of hide and carucate as elsewhere, and Vinogradoff thinks that this contained from 180 to 200 acres.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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 Paul Vinogradoff
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 George Bell
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
The object would appear to have been to obtain a carucate of equal value throughout the kingdom.
From Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
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