Handicraft
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English
Noun
Handicraft (plural Handicrafts)- A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. - Joseph Addison
- (rare) A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. - John Dryden
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Thesaurus
architecture, art, artisan work, artisanship, assembly, building, business, calling, career, career building, careerism, casting, composition, construction, conversion, craft, crafting, craftsmanship, craftwork, creation, cultivation, devising, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, game, growing, handiwork, harvesting, industrial art, industrial design, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, machining, making, manual art, manufacture, manufacturing, metalcraft, metier, milling, mining, mission, molding, mystery, number, occupation, practice, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, profession, pursuit, racket, raising, refining, shaping, smelting, specialization, specialty, stonecraft, trade, vocation, walk, walk of life, woodcraft, work, workmanship
Etymology
For handcraft, influenced by handiwork; Old English handcræft
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