different between grail vs drail

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e??/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

Old French graal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).

Noun

grail (plural grails)

1. The Holy Grail.
2. Something eagerly sought or quested for.

Related terms

• Sangrail

Etymology 2

From Old French grael, ultimately from Latin graduale. Doublet of gradual.

Noun

grail (plural grails)

1. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
   • 1694, John Strype, the Memorials of Thomas Cranmer

     antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel.

Noun

grail (uncountable)

1. (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].

Etymology 4

Compare Old French graite slender.

Noun

grail (plural grails)

1. One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Anagrams

• argil, glair

English

Etymology

From Middle English *drailen (attested as drailed), a variant of Middle English trailen (“to hang loosely, drag along, drag away”), from a merger of Old French trailer, traillier (“to trail”) and Old English tr??lian, tr??elian (“to pluck, pull away”). The alteration of trailen to drailen was probably due to influence from Middle English dragan, drawen (“to drag, draw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

drail (plural drails)

1. (fishing) A hook with a lead shank.
2. (fishing) The piece of lead around the shank of such a hook.
3. The iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw.

Verb

drail (third-person singular simple present drails, present participle drailing, simple past and past participle drailed)

1. (fishing, obsolete) To trail; to draggle.

Anagrams

• LIDAR, Laird, laird, larid, liard, lidar