grail

noun

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. Something eagerly sought or quested for.

   “Becoming an astronaut was his grail.”

   “How many of them had found the item they dreamt of, their personal grails?”

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

   “antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.”

4. (poetic, 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 [...].”

5. One of the small feathers of a hawk.

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory.