† ˈcartware Obs.
[see ware.]
A team of horses; used by Harrison 1577 also in the sense of carucate (L. jugum).
| 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 142 There cumth, a carteweare, of good hors by. 1563 Golding Ovid's Met. ii. (1593) 32 Which when the cart-ware did perceive, they left the beaten way. 1577 Harrison in Holinshed Descr. Brit. i. x. marg., For Hide they used the word Carucate or Cart⁓ware, or Teme. ― England ii. xix. (1877) i. 309 So manie hundred acres..called in some places of the realme, carrucats or cartwares. |