Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Formerly, as much land as could be cultivated by one caruca: usually about 100 acres, but the quantity varied according to the nature of the soil and the practice of husbandry in different districts. Also
carue .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.
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- noun archaic The
area of land able to beploughed in aday by ateam of eightoxen .
Etymologies
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Examples
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{162} A carucate is the extent cultivated by one plough in one year and
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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[FN#467] The "Faddán" (here miswritten "Faddád") = a plough, a yoke of oxen, a "carucate," which two oxen can work in a single season.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Berewick {197a} of Langton one carucate in demesne, eight soke men
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Richard's chief need would still be money both for the war in France and for further payments on his ransom; and he now imposed a new tax of two shillings on the carucate of land and called out one-third of the feudal force for service abroad.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888
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The {76} carucate frequently consisted of eight bovatæ of arable land; but the number of acres appears to have varied not only according to the quality of the soil, but according to the custom of husbandry of the shire: for where a two-years 'course, or crop and fallow, was adopted, more land was adjudged to the carucate than where a three-years' course obtained, the land lying fallow not being reckoned or rateable.
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The object would appear to have been to obtain a carucate of equal value throughout the kingdom.
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Here we have a decided instance of the variation in the number of acres represented by the carucate.
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-- The measure of the carucate was as indefinite in Edward III. 's time as at an earlier period.
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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.
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Louth contributed 20 pounds; Meath and Waterford, 2 shillings on every carucate
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
qms commented on the word carucate
The ploughman endures a cruel fate:
Obliged as he is to hew straight.
All day thus he walks
In the shit of his ox
To furrow the whole carucate.
January 3, 2017