guide-postn.

Brit.

/ˈɡʌɪdpəʊst/, U.S.

/ˈɡaɪdˌpoʊst/

A post with a direction-board affixed, set up for the guidance of travellers, e.g. at the fork of a road; a finger-post. Also transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > signpost or stone

Mercury's finger1589

signpost1597

mercurial statue1638

way-post1647

mercury1668

mercury's statue1684

mercurial stone1716

waywiser1725

guide-post1761

cross in the hands1762

fingerpost1762

guide stone1762

handpost1764

parson1785

fingerboard1793

direction-post1795

guide-board1810

signboard1829

handing-post1837

directing-post1876

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxiii. 122 Where-ever..three several roads meet..set up a guide-post, in the center of them.

1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 46 Great men are the guide-posts and land-marks in the state.

1809 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. June 64 A guide-post rose within his view.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. Pref. 7 To distinguish between the genuine and the spurious in their opinion or their life, is to erect a guide-post on the very road we have ourselves to tread.

1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 121 Enter the road at the point where a guide-post directs to Langdale.

1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab vii. 125 In this treeless land a fair-sized terebinth..was a conspicuous guide-post.

1940 E. McGill Radio Directing x. 201 On audience-participation broadcasts the script is no more than a guide-post.

1967 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 16/1 Our prices and incomes board is an attempt to apply the experience of the USA in using guide posts to influence increases in wages and prices.

Derivatives

guide-post v. to furnish with a guide-post. In quot. 1890 figurative.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1890 Blackwood's Mag. 147 264/1 The ancient well-trodden path of womankind, fenced and guide-posted, is..the best.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	guide-post
释义	guide-postn. Brit. /ˈɡʌɪdpəʊst/, U.S. /ˈɡaɪdˌpoʊst/ A post with a direction-board affixed, set up for the guidance of travellers, e.g. at the fork of a road; a finger-post. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > signpost or stone Mercury's finger1589 signpost1597 mercurial statue1638 way-post1647 mercury1668 mercury's statue1684 mercurial stone1716 waywiser1725 guide-post1761 cross in the hands1762 fingerpost1762 guide stone1762 handpost1764 parson1785 fingerboard1793 direction-post1795 guide-board1810 signboard1829 handing-post1837 directing-post1876 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxiii. 122 Where-ever..three several roads meet..set up a guide-post, in the center of them. 1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 46 Great men are the guide-posts and land-marks in the state. 1809 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. June 64 A guide-post rose within his view. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. Pref. 7 To distinguish between the genuine and the spurious in their opinion or their life, is to erect a guide-post on the very road we have ourselves to tread. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 121 Enter the road at the point where a guide-post directs to Langdale. 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab vii. 125 In this treeless land a fair-sized terebinth..was a conspicuous guide-post. 1940 E. McGill Radio Directing x. 201 On audience-participation broadcasts the script is no more than a guide-post. 1967 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 16/1 Our prices and incomes board is an attempt to apply the experience of the USA in using guide posts to influence increases in wages and prices. Derivatives guide-post v. to furnish with a guide-post. In quot. 1890 figurative.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1890 Blackwood's Mag. 147 264/1 The ancient well-trodden path of womankind, fenced and guide-posted, is..the best. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1761
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