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handicrafts

handicrafts is the plural of handicraft.

Meaning of handicraft

Noun

handicraft (countable and uncountable, plural handicrafts)

  1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
    • I regard the Grand Seignior , who is obliged , by an express command in the Alcoran , to learn and practise some handicraft trade1712 April 25 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “MONDAY, April 15, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 354; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I...
  2. An artifact produced by handicraft.
  3. (obsolete, rare) A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman.
    • his men were all baſe handie craftes, as coblers, and curriers, and tinkers, whereof ſome had barres of yron[…]1596, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traueller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton

Questions about handicrafts

What is handicrafts the plural of?
Handicrafts is the plural of handicraft.

Words near handicrafts in the dictionary

  1. handicraft
  2. handicrafter
  3. handicrafters
  4. handicraftman
  5. handicraftmen
  6. handicrafts
  7. handicraftship
  8. handicraftsman
  9. handicraftsmanship
  10. handicraftsmen
  11. handicraftswoman

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