carucate

[kar-oo-keyt, -yoo-]

noun

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

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 formscar·u·cat·ed, adjective

Examples from the Web for carucate

Historical Examples of carucate

I have throughout assumed that 120 acres make the hide or carucate.
Domesday Book and Beyond
Frederic William Maitland
And he took from every carucate throughout the whole kingdom 20s.
The Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9)
Francis Aidan Gasquet
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
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