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Waˊpentakes
Waˊpentakes [prob.
of
wapen (Saxon)
armour, and
tager (Danish),
to take, it being a custom for the inhabitants to present their weapons to
their lord, in token of subjection; or a custom, that when he that came to take
the government of a hundred, was met by the better sort of people, they touched
his weapon or lance with their spears, by which ceremony they were united
together, and entered into a mutual association] the same as an
Hundred or division of a county.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Waˊntonness *
Wapp [in a Ship]