(Saint) The apostle who denied Jesus and who Jesus called 'the rock on which the church was built'; Peter was the first bishop of Rome, or Pope
(See Blue Peter ) Great Peter A bell in York Minister, weighing 10 3/4 tons, and hung in 1845 Lord Peter The Pope in Swift's Tale ej'a Tub Rob Peter to pay Paul (See Robbing ) St Peter Patron saint of fishers and fishmongers, being himself a fisherman St Peter, in Christian art, is represented as an old man, bald, but with a flowing beard; he is usually dressed in a white mantle and blue tunic, and holds in his hand a book or scroll His peculiar symbols are the keys, and a sword, the instrument of his martyrdom He has got St Peter's fingers - i e the fingers of a thief The allusion is to the fish caught by St Peter with a piece of money in its mouth They say that a thief has a fish-hook on every finger
The name of one of the apostles, To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out
(See Blue Peter ) Great Peter A bell in York Minster, weighing 10 3/4 tons, and hung in 1845 Lord Peter The Pope in Swift's Tale of a Tub Rob Peter to pay Paul (See Robbing ) St Peter Patron saint of fishers and fishmongers, being himself a fisherman St Peter, in Christian art, is represented as an old man, bald, but with a flowing beard; he is usually dressed in a white mantle and blue tunic, and holds in his hand a book or scroll His peculiar symbols are the keys, and a sword, the instrument of his martyrdom He has got St Peter's fingers - i e the fingers of a thief The allusion is to the fish caught by St Peter with a piece of money in its mouth They say that a thief has a fish-hook on every finger