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, Ovids Met., II. (1584), 17.
Which when the Cartware did perceiue, they left the beaten way | |
And taking bridle in the teeth began to run astray. |
1577. Harrison, in Holinshed, Descr. Brit., I. x. 12, marg. For hide they vsed the word Carucate or cartware, or Teme. Ibid., England, II. xix. (1877), I. 309. So manie hundred acres called in some places of the realme, carrucats or cartwares.