What is the meaning of Entail?

To imply, require, or invoke.

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 a heritage.

To appoint hereditary possessor.

To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

That which is entailed.

  1. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
  2. The rule by which the descent is fixed.

An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

The rule by which the descent is fixed.

Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Source: wiktionary.org