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Carucage

Car′u-cage

,
Noun.
[LL.
carrucagium
(OF.
charuage
.), fr. LL.
carruca
plow, fr. L.
carruca
coach.]
1.
(Old Eng. Law.)
A tax on every plow or plowland.
2.
The act of plowing.
[R.]

Definition 2024


carucage

carucage

English

Noun

carucage (plural carucages)

  1. (historical) A form of land taxation that replaced Danegeld in twelfth-century England
  2. (obsolete) The act of ploughing.