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carrucate

carrucate is the alternative form of carucate.

Meaning of carucate

Noun

carucate (plural carucates)

  1. (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.

Forms of carrucate

pluralcarrucates

Origin of carrucate

From Medieval Latin carrūcāta (“ploughland”), from carrūca (“chariot; coach; wheeled plough”). Compare French charrue (“plough”).

Questions about carrucate

What is carrucate the alternative form of?
Carrucate is the alternative form of carucate.

Words near carrucate in the dictionary

  1. Carrubba
  2. Carrubbas
  3. carruca
  4. carrucae
  5. carrucas
  6. carrucate
  7. carrucates
  8. Carrum
  9. Carrum Downs
  10. carrus
  11. Carruth

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