Wapentake n. : 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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Defination from the web:
Wapentake) Jump to: navigation, search ... Alternative names include wapentake, herred (Danish, Norwegian), härad (Swedish) and kihlakunta (Finnish). The name is derived from the ... In Yorkshire, a Norse wapentake usually replaced several Anglo-Saxon hundreds. ...