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What is a carucate?

What is a carucate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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.
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The eight oxen, as Mr Seebohm has shown, are the key to the whole system of the carucate and the bovate.
There was a priest having half a carucate of land in frank almoign.
On the other hand, if the carucate paid two shillings, its value has been stated in some abnormal fashion.
The Lordship of Golcar is recorded in the Domesday Book as including half a carucate of taxable land and woodland pasture one league long and half a league wide.
A Welshman in this manor had half a carucate, and rendered i. sextar of honey.
I have throughout assumed that 120 acres make the hide or carucate.

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