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Word: Wapentake
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Old English wǣpen(ge)tæc, from Old Norse vápnatak, from vápn ‘weapon’ + taka ‘take’, perhaps with reference to voting in an assembly by a show of weapons
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈwɒp(ə)nteɪk
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈwap(ə)nteɪk
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(in the UK) a subdivision of certain northern and midland English counties, corresponding to a hundred in other counties.
Short Definition:(in UK) subdivision of certain northern and midland English counties
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