Crossword clues for fingerpost
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fingerpost \fingerpost\ n. a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger.
Syn: fingerboard.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A board that shows the direction (and often distance) to a named place; especially one of several attached to a milepost 2 The milepost itself
WordNet
n. a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger [syn: fingerboard]
Wikipedia
A fingerpost (sometimes referred to as a guide post) is a traditional type of sign post primarily used in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, consisting of a post with one or more arms, known as fingers, pointing in the direction of travel to places named on the fingers. The posts have traditionally been made from cast iron or wood, with poles painted in black, white or grey and fingers with black letters on a white background, often including distance information in miles. In most cases, they are used to give guidance for road users, but examples also exist on the canal network, for instance. They are also used to mark the beginning of a footpath, bridleway, or similar public path.
Fingerposts were also used in Continental Europe, in the Electorate of Saxony they were a precursor to the Saxon post milestones.
Usage examples of "fingerpost".
Search of any Nature the Understanding stands suspended, then Instances of the Fingerpost shew the true and inviolable Way in which the Question is to be decided.
Lord Bacon did not despair, and claimed one instance of a fingerpost which points in one direction only, and allows of no other possibility.
I found a fingerpost bearing the name of Panter and turned onto the narrow side road.
The three-bedroomed cottage, which had electricity and a view out across open country to Letterbox and Fingerpost Fields, Yewtree Coppice and Stone Redding, lay on the outskirts of Much Marcle at a bend on the Dymock road, and it was here, at the age of barely twenty, that she bore her fourth child, and her first daughter, whom she called Little Daisy.
He had known since childhood exactly where the county boundary with Herefordshire ran, and he chose a site just on the Gloucestershire side, in Fingerpost Field, where he had worked with his father as a boy.
He was charged with her murder on the following day but refused to say anything in reply, just as then he refused to return to Fingerpost Field to assist the police search for the body of Ann McFall.
Her remains, together with the remains of her unborn child, were recovered from Fingerpost Field, Kempley, on 7 June 1994.
Frederick West is taken to Fingerpost Field, Kempley, and points out the position that he believes Ann McFall may be buried.
April 1994 - Excavations begin in Fingerpost Field, Kempley, the site which Frederick West suggested contained the remains of Ann McFall.
June 1994 - The remains of Ann McFall are discovered in Fingerpost Field.
There, fifty yards ahead, was the fingerpost with its letters almost rubbed out by rain.
She hesitated, then, resolutely turning her back on them, she began to make her way up the empty track past a dusty fingerpost labelling yet more tombs, and, her shoes slipping on the dust and stones, she scrambled on upwards away from the crowds.
Now Harry noticed that the warning signs were made of imported wood, like the little fingerposts that marked the road.
He let the horse amble until they came to an intersection with a collection of fingerposts pointing in different directions: Fifehead Neville, Okeford Fitzpaine, Sturminster Newton.
A truly glorious dessert of fruit on three battered tin trays covered this awkward moment: and then at last came the decanters, those fingerposts towards an eventual release.