Paternoster

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.

2. A beadlike ornament in moldings.

3. A line with a row of hooks and bead Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.