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(British) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in a loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor
Answer for the clue "(British) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in a loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor ", 11 letters:
paternoster
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Paternoster , also known as Shepherd and Sheep or Shepherd with his Flock , is an outdoor 1975 bronze sculpture by Elisabeth Frink , installed in Paternoster Square near St Paul's Cathedral in London , United Kingdom. The statue measures . It depicts a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the Lord's Prayer," Old English Pater Noster , from Latin pater noster "our father," first words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin. Meaning "set of rosary beads" first recorded mid-13c. Paternoster Row , near St. Paul's in London (similarly named streets are ...
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Clive Paternoster lit a Gauloise and plunged his hands deep into the pockets of his black raincoat.
I left him, Clive Paternoster fetched his old atlas of the British Isles down from the bookcase.
Heywood was dead and had found himself talking with Clive Paternoster as I had.
God in His infinite wisdom had spared old Clive Paternoster, who had known most of what Robbie knew.
Clive Paternoster, you have known so much for so long, you and Robbie Heywood, that it would have been grossly unjust to withhold from you the final chapter.
Torricelli nephew, such a snot, and Paternoster with his incredible nose and the tramps cooking dinner in the rain in the Place de la Contrescarpe.
Guarionex, the Lord of the Vega Real, who had once been friendly enough, who had danced to the Spanish pipe and learned the Paternoster and Ave Maria, and whose progress in conversion to Christianity the seduction of his wives by those who were converting him had interrupted, after wandering in the mountains of Ciguay had been imprisoned in chains, and drowned in the hurricane of June 30, 1502.
His eyes were fastened upon the north, where lay the Paternoster Rocks.
The sun had gone down, the dusk was creeping on, and against the dark of the north there was a shimmer of fire--a fire that leapt and quivered about the Paternoster Rocks.
Walking away from the cemetery, Clive Paternoster lit a Gauloise and plunged his hands deep into the pockets of his black raincoat.
Before I left him, Clive Paternoster fetched his old atlas of the British Isles down from the bookcase.
And Monk could be counted on to scour the bookstalls in Paternoster Row and Westminster Hall, or anywhere else I might see fit to send him.
Lambeth ale at lunch revived me, and I caught a hackney-coach to Westminster Hall, where, of course, I had no better luck than in either Little Britain or Paternoster Row.
I decided that tomorrow I would put a few questions about in Little Britain and Paternoster Row.
Panorama on Thursday, unless you would prefer to investigate the booksellers of Paternoster Row?