nameboard

English

Etymology

name +‎ board

Noun

nameboard (plural nameboards)

1. A signboard bearing a name.
   • 1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:

     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.

   • 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:

     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.

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 171:

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

Alternative forms

• name board

Anagrams

• bemoradan, done Abram