Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.
Etymologies
- From Low Latin carucata ("plough"). Compare French charrue ("plough") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“{162} A carucate is the extent cultivated by one plough in one year and”
“[FN#467] The "Faddán" (here miswritten "Faddád") = a plough, a yoke of oxen, a "carucate," which two oxen can work in a single season.”
“Berewick {197a} of Langton one carucate in demesne, eight soke men”
“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)
“Here we have a decided instance of the variation in the number of acres represented by the carucate.”
“-- The measure of the carucate was as indefinite in Edward III. 's time as at an earlier period.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The object would appear to have been to obtain a carucate of equal value throughout the kingdom.”
“Louth contributed 20 pounds; Meath and Waterford, 2 shillings on every carucate”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carucate’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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English Weights and Measures
Most of these are names of weights and measures in use before 1500, gleaned from household accounts of English estates and colleges.
pondus, clove, wey, charrus, pisa, seam, sum, petra, peck, fatt, skep, quarter and 49 more...
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The Measure of Man
Unusual, arcane, or obscure units of measure
cable, cabot, bushel, cade, caliper, callipic cycle, metonic cycle, cunit, air watt, ale gallon, allergy unit, amber and 228 more...
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