meaning of entail
1. That which is entailed.
2. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
3. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
4. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
5. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
6. To appoint hereditary possessor.
7. To cut or carve in a ornamental way.
8. the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple
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