woodcraft

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   knowledge and skill in living, traveling, hunting, or finding one's way in woodland

   Her woodcraft helped the group find dry shelter and safe drinking water.

2. 2
   noun

   the skill or activity of making objects from wood

   He learned woodcraft by carving spoons and small boxes.

A compound of wood + craft. In older use it chiefly meant practical knowledge of forests, game, tracking, and outdoor survival; it also developed the transparent sense of skill in shaping or carving wood.

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