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caruca

caruca is the alternative form of carruca.

Meaning of carruca

Noun

carruca (plural carrucas or carrucae)

  1. (historical) A heavy wheeled turnplough that was used during the Middle Ages.
    • Pliny mentions another carriage of imperial Rome — the carruca, which had four wheels and was used equally in the city and for long journeys.1912, Ralph Straus, Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution, page 34
    Synonyms:
    heavy plough

Forms of caruca

pluralcarucas
pluralcarucae

Questions about caruca

What is caruca the alternative form of?
Caruca is the alternative form of carruca.

Words near caruca in the dictionary

  1. Caruana
  2. Caruanas
  3. carubicin
  4. carubin
  5. carubinose
  6. caruca
  7. carucae
  8. carucage
  9. carucages
  10. carucas
  11. carucate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caruca (page history and authors); carruca (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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