单词 | way-post |
释义 | > as lemmasway-post way-post n. now archaic = guide-post n. 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 1647 T. Ford Times Anatomiz'd xxv. sig. E3v No man teaches better then he, and no man lives worse, teaching others what he does not himselfe, like way-posts, directing travailers in their way, but themselves not stirring. 1773 J. Berridge Christian World Unmasked 211 They were like way-posts, which shew a road, but cannot help a cripple forwards. a1845 R. H. Barham Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 236 And you came to a place where three cross-roads divide, Without any way-post, stuck up by the side Of the road, to direct you and act as a guide. 1988 P. Fitzgerald Beginning of Spring ix. 71 The river ran darkly, still choked with the winter's majestic breaking ice and the debris carried along with it, an inconceivable amount of rubbish—baskets, crates, way-posts, wash-tubs, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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