单词 | direction-post |
释义 | > as lemmasdirection-post direction-post n. a finger-post at the branching of a road, a directing post. 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 1795 tr. K. P. Moritz Trav. Eng. 142 Where there are cross-roads, there are direction posts, so that it is hardly possible to lose oneself in walking. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ii. 10 A direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place. 1861 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism ii. 35 To inform a traveller..is not to forbid the use of direction-posts on the way. < as lemmas |
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