Usually means: Inheritance system dividing equally among sons.
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  7. gavelkind: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  12. gavelkind: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. Gavelkind: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gavelkind)

noun:  (historical) a system of inheritance associated with the county of Kent in England whereby, at the death of a tenant, intestate estate is divided equally among all his sons; also, a similar system employed in Ireland

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