Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A carucate (which see).
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Examples
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He said there was neuer a cucholds kniffe carue itt that cold.
Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Frank Sidgwick
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Or a iii jors qu il m'avint une grande malaventure que je perdi le mellor de mes bues Roget le mellor de me carue.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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J'estoie liues a un rice vilain si cacoie se carue. iiii bues i avoit.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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And now I can perceiue, it was not fit, that priuate men should carue out their redresse, which way they list, no, learne it now by me obedience is the best in eche degree.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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Therefore at my departure from them in An. 1587 I willed them, that if they should happen to be distressed in any of those places, that then they should carue ouer the letters or name, a Crosse + in this forme, but we found no such signe of distresse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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_that were sett ouer the Subiection of his lyfe tyme: and euery of the goddes that Manuel wolde carue toilesomelie hadde in hys Bodie a
Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918
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In all this way we saw in the sand the print of the Saluages feet of 2 or 3 sorts troaden the night, and as we entered vp the sandy banke vpon a tree, in the very browe thereof were curiously carued these faire Romane letters C R O: which letters presently we knew to signifie the place, where I should find the planters seated, according to a secret token agreed vpon betweene them and me at my last departure from them, which was, that in any wayes they should not faile to write or carue on the trees or posts of the dores the name of the place where they should be seated; for at my comming alway they were prepared to remoue from Roanoak 50 miles into the maine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And in all the space of two or three moneths, while the man liued in company of the woman, there was neuer any thing seene or perceiued betweene them, more then ought haue passed betweene brother and sister: but the woman was in all things very seruiceable for the man, attending him carefully when he was sicke, and he likewise in all the meates which they did eate together, woulde carue vnto her of the sweetest, fattest, and best morsels they had.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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1292: He that stirs next, to carue for his owne rage,
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1158: To carue out Dialls queintly, point by point,
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