paternoster

/หˆpษ‘หtษ™หŒnษ’stษ™(ษน)/

IPA: /P AA0 T ER0 N OW1 S T ER0/

noun
  1. 1

    The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.

  2. 2

    A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.

  3. 3

    A bead-like ornament in mouldings.

  4. 4

    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.

  5. 5

    A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.

  6. 6

    Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.

  7. 7

    A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.

  8. 8

    A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.

verb
  1. 1

    To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paternoster