Gavelkind is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.
You can make 501 anagrams from letters in gavelkind (adegiklnv).
1175-1225; Middle English gavelkinde, gavlikind, Old English gafel gavel2 + (ge)cynd kind2
The gavelkind or tributary tenure there was subjected to equal partition among the heirs.
gavelkind, descent of property to all the sons alike, the oldest to have the horse and arms and the youngest the homestead.
In the Saxon times, land was divided equally among all the male children of the deceased, according to the custom of gavelkind.
This is, in other words, a history of the gavelkind, and other remarkable customs of the County of Kent.
gavelkind may be derived from gabel, a fork or branch, and the word is used in Ireland as well as in Kent.
On the death of a freeholder his land was divided amongst his sons equally, according to what is called "the custom of gavelkind."
Notwithstanding the above decision, it is probable that a description of tanistry and gavelkind does not exhaust the subject.
Their tenures were the gavelkind once prevalent over most of the world.
The tenure of gavelkind prevails principally in the County of Kent.
Ordinarily in gavelkind, property was kept in male hands, descending from father to son.