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Definition of: wapentake
(wop′ən·tāk, wap′-) noun
An old administrative and judicial subdivision of some English counties, equivalent to the hundred of most counties. [OE wæpengetœc <ON vāpnatak a (symbolical) flourish of weapons denoting confirmation of the decisions of an assembly <vāpna, genitive plural of vāpn a weapon + tak a taking]
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