Meaning of nameboard | Babel Free

Definitions

A signboard bearing a name.

Examples

“The former Metropolitan station was situated about five minutes' walk⟳ from the main street, and was always designated Uxbridge (Belmont Road) by Bradshaw, although there was no official sanction for this name⟳; nothing of the sort⟳ ever appeared either on the station nameboards or the Metropolitan maps and timebills.”

“On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort⟳ of train⟳ ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop⟳ at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.”

“Finally the couplings whimpered and the train⟳ limped off at a slow haul to another country station whose flaky nameboard read⟳ 'Adlestrop'.”

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