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1. (n.) wapentake
(formerly, in N England and the Midlands) a subdivision of a shire or county corresponding to the historical hundred of other counties.
Etymology: (1806, Amer.; < Shawnee wa&raiseddot;piti lit., white rump (Proto-Algonquian *wa&raiseddot;p- white +*-etwiy- rump); introduced as an E word by U.S. physician and naturalist Benjamin S. Barton)
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1. (noun) wapentake
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
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