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CARRUCAGE

Volume 5 · 47 words · 1823 Edition

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

Carucage, or Carriage, in husbandry, denotes the ploughing of ground, either ordinary, as for grain, hemp, and flax; or extraordinary, as for woad, dyers weed, rape, and the like.