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Paternoster

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
2.NounA slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
3.NounA bead-like ornament in mouldings.
4.NounA tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
5.NounA string of beads used in counting prayers that are said.
6.NounEvery eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
7.NounA medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
8.NounA patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.
9.VerbTo try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
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