Bible Dictionaries
Paternoster
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.
(2):
(n.) The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
(3):
(n.) An elevator of an inclined endless traveling chain or belt bearing buckets or shelves which ascend on one side loaded, and empty themselves at the top.
(4):
(n.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Paternoster'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/paternoster.html. 1828.