guideboard
English
Noun
guideboard (plural guideboards)
- A board, as upon a guidepost bearing road directions.
- 1871, James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows:
- they cannot go astray so long as they carry their guideboard about with them - a delusion we often practise upon ourselves with our high and mighty reason
References
- “guideboard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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