guideboard

A board, as upon a guidepost bearing road directions.

Noun

  1. A board, as upon a guidepost bearing road directions.
    • 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 - 1871, James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows:

Origin

From guide + board.

Forms

guideboards