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

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sloyd

Besides the agricultural work in the Craig Colony, and that in the soap and broom factories and the brick-yard, the patients are taught blacksmithing, carpentry, dressmaking, tailoring, painting, plumbing, shoemaking, laundrying, and sloyd work.

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor

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

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

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

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

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