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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Example Sentences

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sloyd

The value of playgrounds and gardens in cities, and of children's classes in sloyd or manual training in the country, cannot be over-estimated.

From Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women by Caroline French Benton

This, however, was not the Swedish sloyd, but a type of work especially adapted to secondary-school instruction.

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

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

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

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

From The Story of Porcelain by Sara Ware Bassett

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 Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

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