handpost

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English

Etymology

From hand +‎ post.

Noun

handpost (plural handposts)

  1. A kind of signpost indicating what lies in various directions.
    • 1897, Thomas Hardy, The Grave by the Handpost:
      Long Ash Lane cut athwart them, right and left; and they saw that at the junction of the four ways, under the handpost, a grave was dug, into which, as the choir drew nigh, a corpse had just been thrown by the four Sidlinch men employed for the purpose.
    • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1844, →OCLC:
      Here too were the dainty frontispiece and trim vignette, pointing like handposts on the outskirts of great cities, to the rich stock of incident beyond []

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