grails
grails is the plural of grail.
Meaning of grail
Noun (1)
grail (plural grails)
- 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...
- Something eagerly sought or quested for.
- Becoming an astronaut was his grail.
Noun (2)
grail (plural grails)
- 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)
- 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)
- One of the small feathers of a hawk.
Phrases with grails
Questions about grails
- What is grails the plural of?
- Grails is the plural of grail.
Words near grails in the dictionary
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