wapentakeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɒp.ən.teɪk/

名詞

wapentake (複数形 wapentakes)

1. An administrative subdivision in northern English counties, developed under Norse influence, and corresponding to hundreds in the rest of England.
   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: Printed [by Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], OCLC 228714942, page 6:

     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.

派生語

• wapentakal

参考

• hundred
• rape (Etymology 2)

アナグラム

• taken a pew