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Definition paternoster
Etymology
From Latin Pater noster (“our father”) (the first two words of the Oratio Dominica (“the Lord's prayer”)), from pater (“father”) + noster (“our”). The lift and the fishing equipment are named from their resemblance to a rosary.
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 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.
Verb
paternoster (third-person singular simple present paternosters, present participle paternostering, simple past and past participle paternostered)
- (fishing, transitive) To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
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