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handicraft|ˈhændɪkrɑːft, -æ-|
Also 6–8 handycraft; and as 2 words or with hyphen.
[A development of earlier handcraft, after the original pair handwork, handiwork.]
1. Manual skill: skilled work with the hands.
c1275[see handcraft]. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. iv. in Ashm. (1652) 49 In this Warke finde ye nothing shall, But handie-crafte called Arte Mechanicall. c1570Pride & Lowl. (1841) 22 Coonning in handy craft and facultie. 1658J. Robinson Eudoxa i. 16 All kind of Handicraft, or Art. 1682Grew Anat. Plants Ep. Ded., A Piece of Natures Handicraft. 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art 61 You ask of him nothing but a little quick handicraft. 1863Bates Nat. Amazon I. 79 He prefers handicraft to field labour.
2. A manual art, trade, or occupation.
1548Cranmer Catech. 46 b, They also teache vs diverse waies of marchaundise, many handycraftes. a1661Fuller Worthies, Cheshire 181 He [Speed] was first bred to a handicraft, and as I take it to a Taylor. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. Pref. 6 Smithing is..as curious a Handy-Craft, as any is. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 27 Students left the university and went home to learn a handicraft. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 286 Improvements were introduced into agriculture and the handicrafts.
†3. A handicraftsman, artizan, workman. Obs.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. 1. 698 Made by Masons, Carpenters, Geometricians, Sawyers, Ioiners, and other handy-crafts. 1650–66Wharton Poems Wks. (1683) 398 Repining Tradesmen, and Poor Handicrafts. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. ii. xii. (1743) 99 He hath also the Oversight of..Handicrafts and Artisans..in the King's Service. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman Intro., Those who make the goods they sell, though they keep shops, are called Handicrafts. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxv, [Beshrew thy heart for the word], replied the handicraft.
4. attrib., passing into adj. = ‘manual, practical’.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 59 We see by handicraft-demonstration, that the Air in deep Wells and Cellers is stable in the same point of heat. 1663F. Hawkins Youth's Behaviour 79 Handy-craft-trades, which require the labour of the hand. 1692tr. Sallust 67 Sollicite Handicraft Tradesmen and Slaves. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) II. 139 The ingenuity of the handicraft people here is very striking. 1845J. Saunders Cab. Pict. Eng. Life, Chaucer 202 The inhabitants..who lived by the cultivation of trade, commerce, and the arts hardicraft and mental. |