patererpatararo

[Sp.] Ordn.: A mortar for firing salutes. "I can see the bra patararoes glittering on her poop." -Kingsley: Westward Ho! ch. xix. pā-ter-fa-mil'-I-ǎs, s. [Lat.] 1. Ord. Lang .: The father of a family. 2. Roman Law : One who was sui juris and the father of a family. IMG:content-0750.png:[blocks in formation] 5. In angling, a name given to a line to which hooks are attached at certain intervals, and also leaden beads or shot to sink it. (So called from its resemblance to a rosary.) * In a paternoster while : While one could say a paternoster; in a minute; in a jiffy. "All thys was don, as men say, in a Paternoster wyle." -Paston Letters , i. 74.