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† carue Old Law.
Also 6 carewe, (7– erron. carve).
[a. ONF. carue (mod.F. charrue = Pr. carruga, It. carruca):—L. carrūca (med.L. carrūca, carrūga, carrūa), used already in the Salic Law in the sense ‘plough’. See note to carucate. Mod.F. charrue is both plough and plough-land (or carucate), whence the Eng. use.
The spelling carve is a blunder of transcription, after the differentiation of u and v, owing to the fact that v was right before e in most words, e.g. carve, starve, serve.]
A plough-land or carucate.
[1292Britton iii. xxi. §1 Une carue de terre ove les apurtenaunces (one carucate of lande with the appurtunences.)] 1593Norden Spec. Brit. M'sex i. 5 The vsuall account of lande at this day in Englande is by acres, yardes, carewes, hydes, knightes fees, cantreds, baronies and counties. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. vii. 60 A Plow-land or Carue of land is said to containe 4 Yard-land at 30 acres to the Yard-land. 1628Coke On Litt. 173 b, If a man bee seised in fee of a carue of Land by iust title. 1642W. Bird Mag. Hon. 155 A Carve of land, or Plow land. 1670Blount Law Dict., Carrucate or Carve of Land. |