scoutcraft

American  

[skout-kraft, -krahft] / ˈskaʊtˌkræft, -ˌkrɑft /

noun

1. practice of or skill at scouting.

2. skill in the program of activities of the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts.

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Etymology

Origin of scoutcraft

First recorded in 1900–05; scout ¹ + craft

Example Sentences

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scoutcraft

His Efrafan scoutcraft act was getting to be a bore.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

"Who desires to bear the lights which shall lighten the way of this candidate as he enters the mysteries of scoutcraft?" called the scout master.

From The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow by Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn

Anyway, I've been shown the very finest kind of scoutcraft, and that little smile I started with has turned to pride.

From The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Therefore those who had from boyhood been trained in scouting and scoutcraft came out top-dog.

From At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. by John Hargrave

Now, I want every boy to go home and spend the time he can spare before the start studying all the Scout rules, and brushing up his memory on scoutcraft and campcraft.

From The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods by Robert Maitland