guideboard

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English

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Etymology

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From guide +‎ board.

Noun

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guideboard (plural guideboards)

  1. 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

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