in Antiquity, a splendid kind of cart, 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.

or Caruca, also was sometimes used for carrucata. See CARRUCATE.