noun Download 🔗Share The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context. Examples : "During Catholic Mass, we recite the paternoster together as a congregation. " religion theology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building. Examples : "The old office building still had a paternoster, allowing employees to hop on and off the slowly moving cabins as they traveled between floors. " architecture building machine technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A bead-like ornament in mouldings. Examples : "The picture frame had a row of small, round beads, or a paternoster, decorating its inner edge. " architecture art Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The fisherman cast his line, hoping the paternoster would carry his bait down to where the fish were feeding deep below. " technical nautical fish sport item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary. Examples : "My grandmother used her paternoster to count her prayers before bed. " religion ritual Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated. Examples : "While praying the rosary, she paused at each paternoster to recite the Lord's Prayer. " religion ritual Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts. Examples : "Old Thomas, the village's paternoster, spent his days carefully shaping wooden beads for the church's rosaries. " religion job history tradition person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it. Examples : "Back then, traveling salesmen often hawked their questionable remedies, hoping to boost sales by calling each product a "paternoster" and reciting prayers over them before offering them to gullible customers. " medicine religion business history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig. Examples : "My grandpa loves to paternoster for perch in the lake behind his house, using a rig with several small hooks. " fish sport nautical action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading