ˈhandcraft
Manual skill, power, or work; = handicraft 1. Hence handcraft v. trans.; handcrafted ppl. a.
| a 975 Edgar's Canons §11 in Thorpe Laws II. 246 (Bosw.) We læraþ þæt preosta ᵹehwilc to-eacan lare leorniᵹe hand⁓cræft ᵹeorne. c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 392 Mid his hand⁓cræfte he teolede his and his ᵹeferena forþ-dæda. c 1100 Rule St. Benedict lvii. (Durh. Chapt. MS. B. iv. 24) To be ceapienne æniᵹ þing heora handcræftes. c 1205 Lay. 4899 Þurh his hænde craftes [c 1275 Þorh his hendi craftes]. c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 18 So þat it be don with hand craft [MS. B. hande crafte]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 173/1 An Hand crafte, mechania. 1533 More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1062/1 Menne of handcraft. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions Pref. 8 Diuers inuencions of handekraftes and sciences. 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie 166 Euery broking hand-crafts artizan. |
| 1849–53 Rock Ch. of Fathers III. x. 358 Our Anglo-Saxon goldsmiths' hand-craft. 1933 Catholic News (Johannesburg) Mar. 15 (Advt.), Hand-craft tailored suits. 1965 Punch 3 Nov. 645/3 The stone, being hand-crafted and set, remained in place for more than a month before it was washed away in a rain⁓storm. 1967 Listener 5 Jan 21/2 The bowls appear hand⁓crafted instead of factory-manufactured. 1968 C. Leader Angry Darkness iv. 39 The tiny shops were filled..with old silver and hand-crafted copper and brass. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Book of Country Crafts 59 Machine- and mass-production, together, have had a tremendous impact..on hand-crafts. 1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 24 Oct. 4/2 All the fuel injection parts had to be handcrafted. |