'Handicraft' definitions:
Definition of 'handicraft'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Handicraft'
From: GCIDE
- Handicraft \Hand"i*craft\ (h[a^]nd"[i^]*kr[.a]ft), n. [For handcraft, influenced by handiwork; AS. handcr[ae]ft.]
- 1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. [R.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'handicraft'
From: Moby 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