paternoster
(noun) 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
Paternoster
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the Lord’s Prayer in Latin; translates as ‘our father’
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Paternoster (plural Paternosters)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Paternoster is the 26814th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 907 individuals. Paternoster is most common among White (95.15%) individuals.
• penetrators, seropattern, transportee
paternoster (plural paternosters)
(Christianity) The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
(architecture) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
(fishing) 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.
(Christianity, archaic) A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.
(Christianity, archaic) Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
(Christianity, archaic) A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
(archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.
paternoster (third-person singular simple present paternosters, present participle paternostering, simple past and past participle paternostered)
(fishing, transitive) To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
• penetrators, seropattern, transportee
Source: Wiktionary
Pa"ter*nos`ter, n. Etym: [L., Our Father.]
1. The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
2. (Arch.)
Definition: A beadlike ornament in moldings.
3. (Angling)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 April 2025
(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
