paternoster

About 0.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
2. noun A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
3. noun A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
4. noun 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. noun A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said.
6. noun Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
7. noun A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
8. noun A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.

Similar words

panagiarion monopatrism patriarchy patriarchate patrist patristicism patrician canon papistry patristics

Often followed by

row square press and buildings bow house royal eow

Word family

Paternoster Paternosters paternosters