Category:Paternoster

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.)

Defn: a beadlike ornament in moldings.

3. (angling)

Defn: 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.