† 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.
| [1292 Britton iii. xxi. §1 Une carue de terre ove les apurtenaunces (one carucate of lande with the appurtunences.)] 1593 Norden 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. 1610 W. 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. 1628 Coke On Litt. 173 b, If a man bee seised in fee of a carue of Land by iust title. 1642 W. Bird Mag. Hon. 155 A Carve of land, or Plow land. 1670 Blount Law Dict., Carrucate or Carve of Land. |