carucage, carrucage (karokaj)

[ The other remarkable matter of the year 1198 is the imposition of a carucage a tax of five shillings on each Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 150. carucate or hundred acres of land. Also formerly caruage . carucate, carrucate (kar'ö-kāt), n. [ carucata , carrucata , carruca , a plow: see caru ca. ] Formerly, as much land as could be cultivated by one caruca: usually about 100 acres, but the quantity varied according to the nature of the soil and the practice of husbandry in different districts. Also carue . A trace at least of the original reason of the varying contents and relations of the hide and virgate is to be And it was agreed that common way be appendant to a Carve of Land, and so a Carve of Land consists of Land, Meadow, and Pasture, as it appears by Tirring ham's case, 4 Coke, 37 b. Mors v . Webbe (1652), 2 Brown low (& Golds borough), p. 297. Carum (kā'rum), n. [NL., κάρον , caraway: see caraway .] A considerable genus of plants, natural order Umbellifer a . The species are glabrous herbs with perennial fusiform edible roots, pinnate or more divided leaves, and white or yellow flowers. C. Carui is the caraway-plant, the fruit of which is the so called caraway-seed. (See caraway .) Three species are found in the United States west of the Rocky Mountains, the tuberous roots of which are an important article of food to the Indians.