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Substantiivit

1. The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
2. (archaic) 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. (archaic) A patent medicine. So named because the salesman would pray the Lord's prayer over it before selling it.
5. (fishing, AU) 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. (architecture) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.

Verbit

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