Definitions for "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.
The equivalent of a Hundred, in the Danish counties of England wapentac
In the north of England, wapentake (Old Norse vapnatak, or "weapon-taking") is the word used to indicate a Hundred