wapentake

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an administrative subdivision in northern English counties, developed under Norse influence, and corresponding to hundreds in the rest of England
{n} division of a country, a hundred
In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties
Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds
wapentake

    Hyphenation

    wap·en·take

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    Etymology

    () Old English wǣpenġetæc from Old Norse vápnatak, from vápn (“weapon”) + taka (“take”).
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