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guideboard

noun

Etymology

From guide + board.

  1. derived from *bʰers-✻ — “tip, top”
  2. inherited from *burdą✻ — “board, plank; edge; table”
  3. inherited from *bord✻
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. compounded as guideboard — “guide + board”

Definitions

  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

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