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carucate

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[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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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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Et Robertus de Drayton tenet 2 bovatas et quartam partem unius bovate terre de dicto Roberto per forinsecum servicium tantum, unde 16 carucate terre faciunt feodum militis.'

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

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

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

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

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