Grail
a term properly applied to the legendary dish used at the Last Supper, said to have been stolen by a servant of Pilate, used by him to wash his hands in before the multitude, afterward given to Joseph of Arimathea as a memorial of Christ, and finally used by Joseph to collect the blood which flowed from our Lord while hanging on the cross.
GRAIN ELEVATOR. A structure designed for the manipulation and storage of grain awaiting transportation. It is usually a high rectangular or cylindrical edifice, built of steel, enforced concrete, bins containing the grain may form with the elevators and machinery a single large building or the machinery machinery and the bins may be in separate establishments. or some other suitable material. The GRAIN ELEVATOR There is in the larger establishments a working house connected with the bins or actually containing them. Other forms of elevators are those situated on railroad tracks, where a hopper receives the grain from the farmers' wagons whence it is scooped by belted buckets and conveyed to the bins. In the ordinary elevator the machinery and working rooms surmount the main building, where the storage bins are grouped. Over this main building usually lies the distributing floor, and over this again the floor containing the weighing hoppers and machinery for cleaning, and surmounting this again are the garners, leg-driving machinery and turnhead spouts. The grain is carried upward by belted buckets to the turnhead spouts and so conveyed to the garners. From the garners it passes to the main building, being cleared or otherwise treated, in the course of passage. The elevator legs are usually separated by the length of a railroad car so that the operation of transferring from the car to the elevator or from the