Associations to the word «Grail»

Wiktionary

GRAIL, noun. The Holy Grail.
GRAIL, noun. The object of an extended or difficult quest.[1]
GRAIL, noun. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
GRAIL, noun. (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
GRAIL, noun. One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Dictionary definition

GRAIL, noun. The object of any prolonged endeavor.
GRAIL, noun. (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats