The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 11 letter word PATERNOSTER
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More clues leading to the result PATERNOSTER
- Lift a seabird that’s broken bill
- Prayer that could give one uplift
- Prayer gives one lift
- Prayer that gives one a lift
- Father disturbed rest on lift
- Bill carries a bird in a lift
- A seabird shown in advertisement in lift
- A seabird seen in advertisement for a lift
- Treat person in trouble, offering a lift
- Prayer that may give one a lift
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The straight part
We know that "lift" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lift = paternoster.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PATERNOSTER mean?
PATERNOSTER noun- The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
- A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
- A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
- 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.
- A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.
- Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
- A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
- A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.
- To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.