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Fingerpost

noun
1.
A guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger.  Synonym: fingerboard.






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"Fingerpost" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hoopdriver would have slowed up and read the inscription, but no!—the bicycle would not let him. The road dropped a little into Milford, and the thing shied, put down its head and bolted, and Mr. Hoopdriver only thought of the brake when the fingerpost was passed. Then to have recovered the point of intersection would have meant dismounting. For as yet there was no road wide enough for Mr. Hoopdriver to turn in. So he went on his way—or to be precise, he did exactly the opposite thing. The road to the right was the Portsmouth road, and ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Fingerpost" :   guidepost, signpost, fingerboard



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