carucate

[ kar-oo-keyt, -yoo- ]

/ ˈkær ʊˌkeɪt, -yʊ- /

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noun

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 car¹) + -āta-ate¹

OTHER WORDS FROM carucate

car·u·cat·ed, adjective

Words nearby carucate

cartulary, cartwheel, cartwheel flower, Cartwright, Caruaru, carucate, caruncle, carunculate, Carúpano, Carus curve, Caruso

How to use carucate in a sentence

A Welshman in this manor had half a carucate, and rendered i. sextar of honey.
The English Village Community|Frederic Seebohm
Rather we regard the matter thus:—The geld is a land-tax, a tax of so much per hide or carucate.
Domesday Book and Beyond|Frederic William Maitland
In the financial system, as we have said, the carucate plays for some counties the part that is played for others by the hide.
Domesday Book and Beyond|Frederic William Maitland
Of the five hide unit I already knew a good deal; of the six carucate unit I knew nothing.
Domesday Book and Beyond|Frederic William Maitland

If every inch of the vill is ploughed, the carucate can only have 75 acres, and each team tills but 60.
Domesday Book and Beyond|Frederic William Maitland