🛐 A prayer cushion 🧎 A person kneeling

kneeler

1 5.8

A person on their knees, often to pray or work near the ground

noun
/ˈniːlər/

: persona de rodillas

Finally, Sister Anna ran to her, knelt down, and held tightly to her head, which had been banging against a metal hinge on one of the kneelers.

It all started from him trying to clown on the kneelers.

Examples

Controversy also arose regarding the placement of kneelers and the practice of kneeling in Italian Pentecostal churches.

Academic text (2000)
Of course, we do need new kneelers.

Fiction book (1990)
Vi, paying for the coke for the boiler is more urgent than new kneelers.

Fiction book (1990)
When my kneeler creaked, the dog twisted its wrinkled neck around to look at me and growled under its breath, as if it could hear my prayers and knew that they were selfish.

Fiction book (1992)
She knelt on the soft kneeler to pray quietly during the service.
During the ceremony, many kneelers were set up to provide comfort to those praying.
After the fall, he found it difficult to rise from the kneeler where he had been praying.

How Low

prostrate

8 7.0

kneeler

1 5.8

bowing

8 2.7

standing

110 1.0

Surface Forms

kneeler singular

kneelers plural

Morphology

kneeler = kneel (transparent) = kneel + er

Standard agentive formation: 'kneel' + '-er' clearly yields 'a person who kneels', which is directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

Kneeler comes from the verb kneel, which comes from an old English word for 'knee'. So a kneeler is literally 'one who kneels', someone who puts their knees on the ground to pray or to work.