guideboard

guideboard

English

Etymology

guide +‎ board

Noun

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

References

• guideboard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913