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Paternoster
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- 1 Alternative form of paternoster (“Lord's Prayer”). alt-of, alternative
"If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think, have used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise."
- 2 A surname.
- 1 The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
"The friar had said his paternosters duly"
- 2 a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor wordnet
- 3 A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
- 4 A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
- 5 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.
"A paternoster is any style of hook rig where the hook(s) are on droppers above a fixed sinker. One or two hooks are used on a paternoster rig. The droppers are tied using dropper loops tied directly in the line. The twisted dropper is an ideal knot as it stands out at right angles to the line."
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- 6 A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said. archaic
- 7 Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated. archaic
"Holonyms: rosary; prayer beads"
- 8 A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts. archaic
- 9 A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it. archaic
"Near-synonyms: nostrum, nostrum remedium"
- 1 To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English paternoster, pater noster, from Old English Paternoster, 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.
From Middle English paternoster, pater noster, from Old English Paternoster, 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.
From Latin pater (“father”) + noster (“ours”).
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