Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of plowing.
- noun A former tax on land or landholders, fixed at a specified sum on each carucate, or about 100 acres of land. It succeeded the Danegeld (which see).
- noun Also formerly
caruage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Old Eng. Law.) A tax on every plow or plowland.
- noun rare The act of plowing.
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- noun historical A form of
land taxation that replacedDanegeld in twelfth-century England - noun obsolete The act of
ploughing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This was done by ordering a carucage at the rate of three shillings on the ploughland.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888
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The inquest was made by juries of the hundreds, after a method very similar to that lately employed in the carucage of 1198, and earlier in the Domesday survey by William the
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888
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Besides these there had been demanded the carucage of 1200 and the seventh of personal property of 1204, to say nothing of some extraordinary exactions.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888
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He had restored the Danegeld, or land tax, so often abolished, under the new name of 'carucage,' had seized the wool of the Cistercians and the plate of the churches, and rated movables as well as land.
Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins John Fiske 1871
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Besides all kinds of irregular expedients the Danegeld had been practically revived, and to it was now given the name of carucage, a tax of two shillings on every plough-land.
A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865
vendingmachine commented on the word carucage
The act of plowing.
January 14, 2020