carucate

American  

[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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Other Word Forms

• carucated adjective

Etymology

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; car ¹ ) + -āta -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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 Vinogradoff, Paul

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

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

I have generally found that the nearest approximation to correctness, where no other evidence is at hand, is to consider the carucate as designating about 100 acres.

From Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George