sloyd

American  

[sloid] / slɔɪd /

Or sloid,

noun

1. a system of manual training based on experience gained in woodworking, originally developed in Sweden.

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Etymology

Origin of sloyd

1880–85; < Swedish slöjd craft, industrial art, woodworking; cognate with sleight

Example Sentences

Sometimes we go to the park, but when it storms we are glad to stay in the house and work at sewing or sloyd.

From Gerda in Sweden by McDonald, Etta Austin Blaisdell

In 1886 a teacher was brought to Boston from Sweden to introduce Swedish sloyd, and a teacher-training school which has been very influential was established there, in 1889.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

I like mathematics, and sloyd, and a hammer and nails and saw.

From Stories Worth Rereading by Various

Why, some of those little chaps in the sloyd room can chisel and plane like carpenters.

From The Story of Porcelain by Bassett, Sara Ware

Home sloyd was installed in an institution of its own for training teachers at Nääs.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley