Word Meanings - HANDICRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. Addison. 2. A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. Dryden.

WORKMANSHIP
1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
HANDICRAFT
1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. Addison. 2. A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. Dryden.
MANIPULATION
1. The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art. Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind.
HANDICRAFTSMAN
A man skilled or employed in handcraft. Bacon.
HANDIWORK
Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally. The firmament showeth his handiwork. Ps. xix. 1.
DISWORKMANSHIP
Bad workmanship. Heywood.