Meaning of entail in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To imply or require.

  Example: This activity will entail careful attention to detail.

• 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.

noun

• That which is entailed. Hence:

• Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.