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What does paternoster mean?

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Noun
  1. (Christianity) The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
  2. A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building, the arrangement resembling a rosary. The moving compartment is entered at one level and left when the desired level is reached.
  3. (architecture) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
  4. (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.
  5. (Christianity, archaic) A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.
  6. (Christianity, archaic) A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
  7. (archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's prayer over it before selling it.
Verb
  1. (fishing, transitive) To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
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