Definitions from Wiktionary (Paternoster)

▸ noun:  (Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
▸ noun:  A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
▸ noun:  (architecture, millwork) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
▸ noun:  (fishing) A 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.
▸ noun:  (Christianity, archaic) A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said.
▸ noun:  (Christianity, archaic) Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
▸ noun:  (Christianity, archaic) A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.
▸ verb:  (fishing, transitive) To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
▸ noun:  A surname.





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