PATERNOSTER

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.

2.
n.

A beadlike ornament in moldings.

3.
n.

A line with a row of hooks and bead Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.


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