Wapentake is valid Scrabble Word

Is wapentake a scrabble word?
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Is wapentake valid Words with Friends?
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9 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for WAPENTAKE in dictionary:

NOUN:

(Old English) an archaic subdivision of certain counties
(in the UK) a subdivision of certain northern and midland English counties, corresponding to a hundred in other counties.
subdivision of certain shires or counties, esp in the Midlands and North of England
In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a subdivision of some English shires corresponding to a hundred

Words related to WAPENTAKE

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Words that contain WAPENTAKE

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How to use WAPENTAKE in a sentence

The wapentake turned round in one motion, like a piece of mechanism revolving on its own pivot, and with grave and magisterial step proceeded towards the door of the Green Box.
The wapentake preceded Gwynplaine by a few steps, never turning round or looking at him, in that icy ease which is given by the knowledge that one is the law.
However, he took his resolution heroically, and decided to brave the law, and to follow the wapentake, so anxious was he concerning the fate of Gwynplaine.
Scarcely any one in the caravans had any idea that the wapentake had come to take Gwynplaine.
When the wapentake, leading the file of soldiers between whom Gwynplaine walked, arrived at the small streets, Ursus watched them breathlessly.
Gwynplaine was in the centre, the wapentake and his baton of iron being now behind him.
You must understand in our day that neither the sheriff, the wapentake, nor the justice of the quorum could exercise their functions as they did then.
It was the wapentake striking his wand against a sheet of iron.
To the silence of the wapentake had succeeded the vision of torture to be endured.
The wapentake and the justice of the quorum remained where they were, allowing Gwynplaine to advance alone.

The wapentake placed himself near the head of the patient.
The sheriff cast a glance first at the justice of the quorum and then at the wapentake.
The wapentake and the justice of the quorum approached Gwynplaine and took him by the arms.
When Gwynplaine was seated, the justice of the quorum and the wapentake retired a few steps, and stood upright and motionless, behind the seat.
The Duchess Josiana left London at the very moment that the wapentake appeared at the Tadcaster Inn to arrest Gwynplaine and take him to the torture cell of Southwark.
Master Nicless looked after him, and saw Ursus run, as fast as his old legs would allow, in the direction taken that morning by the wapentake who carried off Gwynplaine.
This fourth was the wapentake, clearly visible in the light of the torch.
Following the wapentake, there filed and opened out below the gateway in order, two by two, with the rigidity of a series of walking posts, ranks of silent men.
The wapentake passed through it, then the men, then the second torch.
But a short time ago, the wapentake, now the justice of the quorum.

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