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grail

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noun/ɡɹeɪl/
  1. 1

    The Holy Grail.

    • The quest for the Grail is not archeology. It's a race against evil. If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me?
  2. 2

    Something eagerly sought or quested for.

    • Becoming an astronaut was his grail.
noun/ɡɹeɪl/
  1. 1

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

    • antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.
noun/ɡɹeɪl/
  1. 1

    Small particles of earth; gravel.poeticuncountable

    • Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].
noun/ɡɹeɪl/
  1. 1

    One of the small feathers of a hawk.

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