scoutcraft
Americannoun
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practice of or skill at scouting.
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skill in the program of activities of the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts.
Etymology
Origin of scoutcraft
Example Sentences
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His Efrafan scoutcraft act was getting to be a bore.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
The method is summed up in the term "scoutcraft" and is a combination of observation, deduction and handiness—or the ability to do.
From Outdoor Sports and Games by Miller, Claude H.
It would be a test in which every faculty of the searcher's scoutcraft would be brought into active exercise.
From Kiddie the Scout by Leighton, Robert
In the days of Kiddie's convalescence, Rube learnt many a lesson in scoutcraft; lessons which he hastened to put into practice.
From Kiddie the Scout by Leighton, Robert
The information in this book is based upon thoroughly American scoutcraft as practiced by Indians, trappers, and soldiers of the old-time West, and by mountaineers, plainsmen, and woodsmen of to-day.
From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
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