in antiquity, a splendid kind of carr, or chariot, mounted on four-wheels, richly decorated with gold, silver, ivory, &c., in which the emperors, senators, and people of condition, were carried. The word comes from the Latin carrus, or British carr, which is still the Irish name for any wheel-carriage.

or CARUCA, is also used in middle-age writers for a plough.

CARRUCA was also sometimes used for carrucata. See CARRUCATE.

CARUCAGE, (carucagium,) a kind of tax anciently imposed on every plough, for the public service. See CARRUCATE and Hidage.