grail

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see also: GRAIL

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɹeɪɫ/

Noun

grail (plural grails)

1. The Holy Grail.
2. The object of an extended or difficult quest.

   Becoming an astronaut was his grail.

Noun

grail (plural grails)

1. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.

   • antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.

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 [...].

Noun

grail (plural grails)

1. One of the small feathers of a hawk.

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GRAIL

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Proper noun

1. (space, NASA) Initialism of Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory

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