HANDICRAFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does handicraft mean? 

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

1. a work produced by hand labor

2. a craft that requires skillful hands

  Familiarity information: HANDICRAFT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANDICRAFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A work produced by hand labor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

handcraft; handicraft; handiwork; handwork

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

piece of work; work (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A craft that requires skillful hands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

arts and crafts (the arts of decorative design and handicraft)

craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)

Domain member category:

lace (do lacework)

shell stitch (make by shell stitching)

intertwine; tat (make lacework by knotting or looping)

braid; lace; plait (make by braiding or interlacing)

marble (paint or stain like marble)

enamel (coat, inlay, or surface with enamel)

inlay (decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal)

hatch (inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating)

damascene (inlay metal with gold and silver)

lacquer (coat with lacquer)

japan (coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan)

fringe (adorn with a fringe)

fret (carve a pattern into)

brocade (weave a design into (textiles))

tissue; weave (create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton)

single crochet; single stitch (make by single stitching)

double crochet; double stitch (make by double stitching)

crochet (create by looping or crocheting)

crochet; hook (make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle)

purl stitch (make with purl stitches)

rib (form vertical ribs by knitting)

cast off (make the last row of stitches when knitting)

cast on (make the first row of stitches when knitting)

purl (knit with a purl stitch)

knit (make (textiles) by knitting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "handicraft"):

bookbinding (the craft of binding books)

sewing; stitching (joining or attaching by stitches)

spinning (creating thread)

weaving (creating fabric)

knitting (creating knitted wear)

crocheting (creating a garment of needlework)

lace making; tatting (the act or art of making handmade lace)

needlecraft; needlework (work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle)

 Context examples 

Ham was a boat-builder in these days, having improved a natural ingenuity in that handicraft, until he had become a skilled workman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The nurseries for children of ordinary gentlemen, merchants, traders, and handicrafts, are managed proportionably after the same manner; only those designed for trades are put out apprentices at eleven years old, whereas those of persons of quality continue in their exercises till fifteen, which answers to twenty-one with us: but the confinement is gradually lessened for the last three years.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)