paternoster

The Lord’s Prayer.

One of the large beads on a rosary on which the Lord’s Prayer is said.

A sequence of words spoken as a prayer or a magic formula.

A weighted fishing line having several jointed attachments for hooks connected by beadlike swivels.

An elevator constructed of a series of doorless compartments hung on chains that move slowly and continuously, allowing passengers to step on and off at will.

The Lord’s Prayer: so called from the first two words of the Latin version.

One of the large beads in the rosary used by Roman Catholics in their devotions, at which, in telling their beads, they repeat the Lord’s Prayer. Every eleventh bead is a paternoster.

Hence, the rosary itself.

An object composed of beads or of bead-like objects strung together like a rosary; specifically, a fishing-line to which hooks are attached at regular intervals, and also leaden beads or shot to sink it; also, in architecture, a kind of ornament in the shape of beads, used in baguets, astragals, etc.

Profane expletives; profanity.