paternoster

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.

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.

A bead-like ornament in mouldings.

(no longer used) A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said.

(no longer used) Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.

(no longer used) A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.

(no longer used) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.

To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.