guideboard

English

Etymology

From guide +‎ board.

Noun

guideboard (plural guideboards)

1. A board, as upon a guidepost bearing road directions.
   • 1871, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in My Study Windows, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC:

     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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.