grail

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See also: GRAIL

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French graal (“cup”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value ML. is not valid. See WT:LOL. gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin crater (“bowl”).

Noun

grail (plural grails)

  1. The Holy Grail.
  2. The object of an extended or difficult quest.[1]
    Becoming an astronaut was his grail.

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French grael, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin graduale.

Noun

grail (plural grails)

  1. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of T. Warton to this entry?)
    • Strype
      antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel.

Noun

grail (uncountable)

  1. (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
      Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].

Etymology 4

Compare Old French graite slender.

Noun

grail (plural grails)

  1. One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Anagrams

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