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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A string of beads for keeping count of the prayers one is saying.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A string of beads used by members of various religions to count prayers, chants or devotions.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics)

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  • “Quetzal had found prayer beads in a pocket of Gulo's robe; he ran them through his fingers.”

    Calde of the Long Sun

  • “His hand trembled as he jerked a string of ranling jet prayer beads from a pocket of his robe.”

    Calde of the Long Sun

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  1. bead
  1. paternoster
  1. to bid beads

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