carucate

[ kar-oo-keyt, -yoo- ]

/ ˈkær ʊˌkeɪt, -yʊ- /

noun

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

Nearby words

cartulary, cartwheel, cartwheel flower, cartwright, caruaru, carucate, caruncle, carunculate, carus curve, caruso, caruso, enrico

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

Related forms

car·u·cat·ed, adjective

Examples from the Web for carucate

The geldable carucate of Domesday does not signify what the carucate usually signifies in other early documents.
Feudal England -- Historical Studies On The Eleventh And Twelfth Centuries|J.H. Round
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
A carucate is the extent cultivated by one plough in one year and a day (120 acres).
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood|J. Conway Walter
The object would appear to have been to obtain a carucate of equal value throughout the kingdom.
Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850|Various

And he took from every carucate throughout the whole kingdom 20s.
The Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9)|Francis Aidan Gasquet