carucage

English

Etymology

From Late Latin carrucagium, from carruca (“plough”); compare tillage.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹəkɪdʒ/

Noun

carucage (countable and uncountable, plural carucages)

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

Related terms

• carucate

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “carucage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)