carucate

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Definition of carucate in English English dictionary

The area of land able to be ploughed in a day by a team of eight oxen

A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; by some said to be about 100 acres

Related Terms

A carucate

carve

Hyphenation

car·u·cate

Etymology

() From Low Latin carucata (“plough”). Compare French charrue (“plough”)