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wapentakes

wapentakes is the plural of wapentake.

Meaning of wapentake

Noun

wapentake (plural wapentakes)

  1. An administrative subdivision in northern English counties, developed under Norse influence, and corresponding to hundreds in the rest of England.
    • Hollanders, Zelanders, Scots, French, Weſterne men, Northren men, beſides all the hundreds and wapentakes nine miles compaſſe, fetch the beſt of their viands and mangery from her market.1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6

Questions about wapentakes

What is wapentakes the plural of?
Wapentakes is the plural of wapentake.

Words near wapentakes in the dictionary

  1. wapenshawing
  2. wapenshawings
  3. wapenshaws
  4. wapentakal
  5. wapentake
  6. wapentakes
  7. Wapichan
  8. wapinschaw
  9. wapinschawing
  10. wapinschawings
  11. wapinschaws

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