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English → English (gcide) Definition: Paternoster pump Paternoster \Pa"ter*nos`ter\, n. [L., Our Father.] 1. The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version. [1913 Webster] 2. (Arch.) A beadlike ornament in moldings. [1913 Webster] 3. (Angling) A line with a row of hooks and bead-shaped sinkers. [1913 Webster] 4. (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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. --Udall. [1913 Webster]