wapentake
n.
5ME < OE wapentac < ON vapnatak, lit., a weapon-taking (< vapn, WEAPON + tak, a taking, commandeering < taka, to TAKE): prob. used territorially from ceremony in which vassals touched the raised spear of the lord with their own as token of submission6 [Historical] in England, a) a subdivision of certain northern counties originally under Norse domination, corresponding to the hundred in other counties b) a law court in such a subdivision