Definitions for carucate

carucate car·u·cate

Spelling: [kar-oo-keyt, -yoo-]
IPA: /ˈkær ʊˌkeɪt, -yʊ-/

Carucate is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in carucate (aaccertu).

Definitions for carucate

noun

  1. 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);

Examples for carucate

And he took from every carucate throughout the whole kingdom 20s.

Rather we regard the matter thus:—The geld is a land-tax, a tax of so much per hide or carucate.

This would give a very small value for the carucate, if the hida of this district had six carucates; and in many cases 2s.

A carucate is the extent cultivated by one plough in one year and a day (120 acres).

In the financial system, as we have said, the carucate plays for some counties the part that is played for others by the hide.

On the other hand, if the carucate paid two shillings, its value has been stated in some abnormal fashion.

Of the five hide unit I already knew a good deal; of the six carucate unit I knew nothing.

I have throughout assumed that 120 acres make the hide or carucate.

A Welshman in this manor had half a carucate, and rendered i. sextar of honey.

If every inch of the vill is ploughed, the carucate can only have 75 acres, and each team tills but 60.

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