scoutcraft

[ skout-kraft, -krahft ]

noun

1. practice of or skill at scouting. scout. scouting.
2. skill in the program of activities of the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scoutcraft¹

First recorded in 1900–05; scout ¹ + craft

Example Sentences

His Efrafan scoutcraft act was getting to be a bore.

From Literature

And that was the aim of each member of the Owl Patrol, with the exception, perhaps, of Harold, not indeed to be the “best scout,” but to figure as the equal in scoutcraft of any lad of his age and a corresponding period of service, in the United States.

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I can see where it is a verra interesting subject, this scoutcraft, Lil Artha.

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"Well, who would have thought when the water came a-rushing into our boat, so we had to run her ashore and leave her there till morning, that we'd come on the finest chance ever to show what we knew about scoutcraft?"

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Once again they managed to bring into play the resourcefulness which, as members of the Eagle Patrol, had been developed in them; and it was principally through the agency of scoutcraft that the evil designs which certain envious nations had upon the locks of the canal were blocked.

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