paternoster
see also: Paternoster
Pronunciation Noun
Paternoster
Proper noun
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see also: Paternoster
Pronunciation Noun
paternoster (plural paternosters)
- (Christianity) The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
- A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
- (architecture) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
- (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.
- (Christianity, archaic) A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.
- (Christianity, archaic) Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
- (Christianity, archaic) A medieval artisan who craft#Verb|crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
- (archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.
- French: Notre Père
- German: Vaterunser; Unservater; Paternoster; Gebet des Herrn; Herrengebet i roughly in order of currency
- Russian: о́тче наш
- Spanish: paternóster, padrenuestro
- German: Paternoster, Paternosteraufzug, Personen-Umlaufaufzug, Beamtenbagger
paternoster (paternosters, present participle paternostering; past and past participle paternostered)
- (fishing, transitive) To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
Paternoster
Proper noun
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