Grail

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɹeɪɫ/
• Rhymes: -eɪl

Old French graal ("cup"), from Medieval Latin gradalis.

Full definition of grail

Noun

1. The Holy Grail.
2. The object of an extended or difficult quest.http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grailBecoming an astronaut was his grail.

From Old French grael, ultimately from Latin graduale.

Noun

1. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
• Strypeantiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.

Origin uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel.

Noun

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 ....

Compare Old French graite slender.

Noun

1. One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Anagrams

• argil
• glair