finger post

noun

1. a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.

finger post

noun

1. a signpost showing a pointing finger or hand

Word History and Origins

Origin of finger post¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

It is reached by a winding lane turning off the high-road, beside a finger-post and two ugly modern cottages.

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He had called a woman a finger-post, and forthwith she had offered to come to him and be finger-post to him for life!

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All that538 can be done is to serve as a finger-post to point the road along which there is work to be done.

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We did not expect a dull, unsatisfactory guidebook—a mere finger-post folio—nor has the author produced such a commonplace volume.

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It is a finger-post to show us whither the crooked paths of worldly ways will lead us.

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