grail

noun5

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
2. •
   Something eagerly sought or quested for.

   • Becoming an astronaut was his grail.
3. •
   A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.

   • antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc. — 1694
4. •
   One of the small feathers of a hawk.
5. •
   (literary) 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