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Definition of Fingerpost
1. Noun. A guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger.
Definition of Fingerpost
1. Noun. A board that shows the direction (and often distance) to a named place; especially one of several attached to a milepost ¹
2. Noun. The milepost itself ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fingerpost
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fingerpost
Literary usage of Fingerpost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Whitsuntide Annual for (1868)
"Now in the Press and will shortly be Published, THE fingerpost TO TEE HOME
COUNTIES, ESSEX, HERTS, MIDDLESEX, SURREY, KENT & SUSSEX, COMPILED AND EDITED BY ..."
2. Switzerland, and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and the Tyrol by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1893)
"The same fingerpost also shows the path то ST. MORITZ, which is (10 min.)
joined by the path crossing the ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon (1877)
"Let this suffice for Instances of the fingerpost. I have dwelt on them at some
length, to the end that O ' men may gradually learn and accustom themselves ..."
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