Carucata

Lat. [from caruca, a plough.] In old English law. A carucate, or carve of land; a plough-land. A quantity of land containing as much as might be tilled by one plough in a year and a day.

Reg. Orig. 1 b. Co. Litt. 6 a, 69 a.

Skene de Verb. Signif. Blount, voc.

Carucate.

By some said to be one hundred acres.

Blount.

But probably of no fixed quantity. Thel. Dig. lib.

8, c. 12.

See Carve, Ploughland. A team or draught of oxen, (carucata boum,) for drawing or ploughing.

Cowell. Blount.

A cart load.

Blount.

Perhaps a corruption of carecta, carreta, or carectata, (qq. v.) Carucatarius; one who held land in carvage, that is, in socage, or plough tenure.

Cowell.

Kennett's Par. Ant. 354, cited ibid.