Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Waywiser

Waywiser , noun

[Compare German wegweiser a waymark, a guide; weg way + weisen to show, direct.]

An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.
The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an index. — Evelyn