fingerpost
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fingerpost (plural fingerposts)
- A board that shows the direction (and often distance) to a named place; especially one of several attached to a milepost
- The milepost itself.
- 1857, Herman Melville, The Confidence Man, Dix, Edwards & Co, published 1857, page 108:
- ...some hint, which, besides confirming him in the theory of virtue, may, likewise, serve for a finger-post to virtuous action.
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board that shows the direction to a named place
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the milepost itself — see milepost
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- fingerpost on Wikipedia.Wikipedia