Meaning of HEIRLOOM
| Pronunciation: | | 'ehr`loom
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- [n] something that has been in a family for generations
- [n] (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance
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| | See Also: | | belongings, heritage, holding, inheritance, material possession, property | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Heir"loom`\, n. [Heir + loom, in its earlier sense of
implement, tool. See {Loom} the frame.]
Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or
special custom descends to the heir along with the
inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in
a family for several generations.
Woe to him whose daring hand profanes The honored
heirlooms of his ancestors. --Moir.
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| | Related Terms: | | bequeathal, bequest, birthright, borough-English, coheirship, coparcenary, entail, gavelkind, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, law of succession, legacy, line of succession, mode of succession, patrimony, postremogeniture, primogeniture, reversion, succession, ultimogeniture |
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