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finger post

n.
A guidepost in the shape of a pointing hand.
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finger post

n
1. a signpost showing a pointing finger or hand
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At the angle of the white road a dark and solitary figure was standing almost as still as a finger post. It was that of a big man in rough shooting-clothes, bareheaded, and with tousled curly hair that gave him a rather wild look.
Follow for a long way, leaving woods through gate, until you reach T junction with three-way finger post.
Lealholm Wesleyan Passing through a wooden field gate we continue ahead and after two metal field gates our route bears to the right and a finger post directs us down an area of sloping ground.
Firefighters were called to land behind the Finger Post Pub in Norton Road just after 4am and found the van completely alight.
A cast iron finger post sign, indicating one mile to Hedgeley Station in Northumberland, is rated at PS120.
| From the finger post, Bwlch Glas, near the summit of Mount Snowdon, looking back down the Pyg track to Llyn Llyndaw.
| From the finger post, Bwlch Glas, |near the summit of Mount Snowdon, looking back down the Pyg track to Llyn Llyndaw.
"We were driving round in circles along these winding green lanes and eventually we saw a finger post with a snail symbol on.
After a short distance you'll spot a finger post and take the path angling down to the left to cross a stile and continue to a waymarker post.
Continue for 70m then turn left over a stile by finger post before reaching Tre-Mostyn.
Approximately 5,000 people work on the estate, and the bus service fits in with shift patterns, going from the town centre to the residential areas of Thatto Heath, Sutton Manor, Clock Face, Parr, Finger Post and Haydock.
Carmarthenshire A484 nr Butchers Arms, Pembrey, temporary lights A487 Ceredigion Blaenporth tem-porary traffic lightsA477 Pembrokeshire Between Pembroke Turning and Waterloo Roundabout Pembroke Dock, temporary traffic lights between Mylett's Lane & Finger Post, Bangeston.