1863: wapentake Jan 21, 2020

Along with other historical districts of England, these were often further subdivided into 'wapentake'. This doesn't obviously resemble other modern word exactly, but you may be able to see it's a compound, or at least, it was. It comes via Old English ('wǣpenġetæc') from the Old Norse 'vápnatak', which is built from vápn (weapon) and taka (take). It's exact meaning is unclear, but it is thought to come from a process of voting by raising weapons, or it could have just been a district from which men were selected to raise an army. More on districts tomorrow.

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