paternoster
/หpษหtษหnษstษ(ษน)/IPA: /P AA0 T ER0 N OW1 S T ER0/
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The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
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A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
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A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
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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.
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A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.
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Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
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A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
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A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.
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To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
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