Crossword clues for paternoster
paternoster
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paternoster \Pa"ter*nos`ter\, n. [L., Our Father.]
The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
(Arch.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.
(Angling) A line with a row of hooks and bead-shaped sinkers.
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(Mining) 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.
Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria.
Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster.
--Udall.
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 found in other cathedral cities), reflects the once-important industry of rosary bead-making.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context. 2 (context archaic English) A rosary; a string of beads used in counting the prayers said. 3 A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building. The moving compartment is entered at one level and left when the desired level is reached. Found in some university libraries. Named after the string of prayer beads due to their similar arrangement. 4 (context archaic English) A patent medicine. So named because the salesman would pray the Lord's prayer over it before selling it. 5 (context fishing AU English) 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. 6 (context architecture English) A bead-like ornament in mouldings. vb. (context fishing transitive English) To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.
Wikipedia
A paternoster (, , or ) or paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two persons) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping. Passengers can step on or off at any floor they like. The same technique is also used for filing cabinets to store large amounts of (paper) documents or for small spare parts. The much smaller belt manlift which consists of an endless belt with steps and rungs but no compartments is also sometimes called a paternoster.
The construction of new paternosters was stopped in the mid-1970s due to safety concerns, but public sentiment has kept many of the remaining examples open. By far most remaining paternosters are in Western Europe, with perhaps 230 examples in Germany, and 68 in the Czech Republic. Only two have been identified by hobbyists outside Europe: one in Malaysia, another in Peru.
Paternoster is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Angelo Paternoster (1919–2012), American football guard
- Fernando Paternoster (1903–1967), Argentine footballer and manager
- Marissa Paternoster, American musician
- Vito Paternoster (21st century), Italian cellist
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 shepherd herding five sheep. The subject of the statue reflects the former use of Paternoster Row as the site of Newgate Market for the sale of livestock and meat, and may also have theological overtones reflecting its position in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral.
The statue was commissioned by Trafalgar House for the north side of its 1960s development at Paternoster Square. It unveiled in July 1975 by Yehudi Menuhin. Around the same time, Trafalgar House also commissioned Frink's Horse and Rider statue for Dover Street on Piccadilly.
It was removed in 1997 to a temporary location on London Wall near the Museum of London while the site was redeveloped, and was reinstalled in 2003 on a new Portland stone plinth after the redevelopment was completed.
A series of eight smaller statues was created in the 1980s. One example at All Saints Church in Great Thurlow in Suffolk, in memory of Ronald Vestey. Frink was born nearby, in Little Thurlow.
Usage examples of "paternoster".
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?