2. Verb. (third-person singular of handcraft) ¹
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Definition of Handcrafts
1. handcraft [v] - See also: handcraft
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Literary usage of Handcrafts
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1. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting and (1915)
"So excellently was compulsory apprenticeship adapted to the old handcrafts that
its enforcement was in effect not an interference with, but an assistance to ..."
2. Studies in Reading by James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin (1912)
"Moreover, weaving is one of the most primitive and most fundamental of the
handcrafts, and in some form or other is familiar to every one. ..."
3. A New Political Economy by John Milton Gregory (1882)
"It is the displacement of the handcrafts by machine work. ... One by one the old
handcrafts are disappearing, or are reduced to the putting together, ..."
4. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"Evening classes in candy making and handcrafts such as embroidery, tatting,
pyrography, leather work, weaving, basketry, and clav modeling have been ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"... It is thought to be a sad descent for a university whose aim should be the
highest education to stoop to the recognition of handcrafts of the mechanic. ..."
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