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sheltercraft

sheltercraft noun: the set of knowledge and skills needed to construct and maintain shelter in the wilderness.

Noun

sheltercraft (uncountable)

  1. The set of knowledge and skills needed to construct and maintain shelter in the wilderness.
    • […] use of clothing and equipment, pre-trip preparation and packing, food preparation and preservation, sheltercraft, recognition and treatment of environmental injuries, and emergency survival techniques.1980, Naturalist
    • My first experience of real sheltercraft was during a visit as a teenager to a reconstructed Iron-Age roundhouse on the site of an ancient fort in south-west Wales. As I walked through the doorway, under the hewn timber lintel, […]2012, Joe O'Leary, The Wilderness Survival Guide: The Practical Skills You Need for the Great Outdoors, Watkins Media Limited, →ISBN

Origin of sheltercraft

From shelter + -craft.

Questions about sheltercraft

What does sheltercraft mean?
Sheltercraft means the set of knowledge and skills needed to construct and maintain shelter in the wilderness.
What part of speech is sheltercraft?
Sheltercraft is a noun.

Words near sheltercraft in the dictionary

  1. shelterage
  2. shelterages
  3. shelterbelt
  4. shelterbelted
  5. shelterbelts
  6. sheltercraft
  7. sheltered
  8. sheltered in place
  9. sheltered workshop
  10. sheltered workshops
  11. sheltered-in-place

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