Obs. [see WARE.] A team of horses; used by Harrison 1577, also in the sense of CARUCATE (L. jugum).

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1562.  J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 142. There cumth, a carteweare, of good hors by.

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1563.  Golding, Ovid’s 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.

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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.

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