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graile

graile is the obsolete form of grail.

Meaning of grail

Noun (1)

grail (plural grails)

  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?1989, 1:06:54 from the start, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade^(https://archive.org/details/movie-hollywood-720p-sub-indonesia_202209/Indiana+Jones+and+the+Last+Crusade+(1989)+BR/Indiana+Jones+an...
  2. Something eagerly sought or quested for.
    • Becoming an astronaut was his grail.

Noun (2)

grail (plural grails)

  1. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
    • antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.1694, John Strype, the Memorials of Thomas Cranmer

Noun (3)

grail (uncountable)

  1. (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
    • Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun (4)

grail (plural grails)

  1. One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Forms of graile

pluralgrailes

Questions about graile

What is graile the obsolete form of?
Graile is the obsolete form of grail.

Words near graile in the dictionary

  1. Graiae
  2. Graiai
  3. Graian Alps
  4. Graig
  5. grail
  6. graile
  7. grailes
  8. graille
  9. grailles
  10. grailless
  11. graillike

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