The carucate was both a unit of assessment and a peasant landholding unit found in most of the Danelaw counties. The word derives from caruca, Latin for a plough. In the Domesday Book the carucate was a nominal 120 acres (490,000 m²), based on the area a plough team could till in a year. Categories: 1911 Britannica | Historical stubs | Feudalism ... The Danelaw (from the Old English Dena lagu) was an area of England under the administrative control of the Vikings (or Danes, or Norsemen) from the late 9th century. ... A farmer works the land in the traditional way with a horse and plough The plough (American spelling: plow) is a tool used in farming for turning the earth in which one is to plant new seeds. ... Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was like a census by the government today. ... This article is about glacial sediments, for other uses see till (disambiguation). ...

Latin, carucata.