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Noun: wapentake  'wó-pun,teyk
Usage: UK, archaic
  1. (historical) in some northern English counties, an administrative division corresponding to a hundred in other parts of England
    "The old maps showed the boundaries of the wapentakes in Yorkshire"

Derived forms: wapentakes

Encyclopedia: Wapentake