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Webster 1913 Edition
Carucate
Car′u-cate
,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.
Burrill.
Webster 1828 Edition
Carucate
CARUCATE
,Noun.
Definition 2025
carucate
carucate
English
Alternative forms
Noun
carucate (plural carucates)
- (historical) The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres.
Hypernyms
- (100 carucates) See hundred
Synonyms
- hide, plow, plough, plowland, ploughland, carrucate, carve, (Scots) ploughgate, plowgate
Hyponyms
- (¼ carucate) See virgate
- (⅛ carucate) See oxgang
- (1/16 carucate) See nook
- (1/32 carucate) See fardel
- (various & for further divisions) See acre
- (Scottish divisions): See ploughgate
Anagrams
References
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "carucate | carrucate, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1888.