WOODCRAFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodcraft mean? 

• WOODCRAFT (noun)
  The noun WOODCRAFT has 2 senses:

1. skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping)

2. skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood

  Familiarity information: WOODCRAFT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODCRAFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("woodcraft" is a kind of...):

experience (the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("woodcraft" is a kind of...):

craft; craftsmanship; workmanship (skill in an occupation or trade)

 Context examples 

Close behind the pack rode a fourrier and a yeoman-pricker, whooping on the laggards and encouraging the leaders, in the shrill half-French jargon which was the language of venery and woodcraft.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my faith, sirs, he continued, half turning in his saddle to address his escort, unless my woodcraft is sadly at fault, it is a stag of six tines and the finest that we have roused this journey.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)