Definition of grails Grails
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What does grails mean?
Wiktionary 
- grails (Noun)
Plural of grail.
Part of speech
🔤- grails, noun, plural of grail.
WordNet
NounPlural: grails |
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| grail - (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper | ||
| Holy Grail, Sangraal | ||
| grail - the object of any prolonged endeavor | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- grail (n.)
A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. - grail (n.)
A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail. - grail (n.)
Small particles of earth; gravel. - grail (n.)
One of the small feathers of a hawk.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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grail
grāl, n. (Spens.) small particles of any kind, as sand. [O. Fr. graile (Fr. grêle), hail—L. gracilis, slender.] -
grail
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grail
grāl, n. in medieval legend, the Holy Cup used by Christ at the Last Supper. [Orig. the San Greal, 'Holy Dish' (not Sang Real, 'Holy Blood'), in which it is said Joseph of Arimathea collected our Lord's blood; from O. Fr. graal or greal, a flat dish—Low L. gradale, a flat dish, app. a corr. of Low L. cratella, a dim. of crater, a bowl. Diez suggests as the origin a lost cratalis, from cratus, Low L. form of crater.]
Part of speech
🔤- grail, noun, singular of grails.
