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A wapentake is a term derived from the Old Norse, the rough equivalent of an Anglo-Saxon hundred. The word denotes an administrative meeting place, typically a crossroads or at a ford in a river where attendance or voting would be denoted or conducted by the show of weapons.

Wapentake is also the title of a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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