Paternosters

noun

1. The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
2. A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
3. A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
4. 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.
5. A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.