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bushcraft

noun

Etymology

From bush + -craft.

  1. derived from *bʰuH-✻ — “to grow”
  2. inherited from *buskaz✻ — “bush, thicket”
  3. inherited from *busk✻
  4. inherited from *busċ✻
  5. inherited from bush
  6. suffixed as bushcraft — “bush + -craft”

Definitions

  1. The skills needed to survive in the bush, and by extension in any natural environment.

    • Meronyms: camping, firemaking, hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, first aid, orienteering
    • Near-synonym: bushmanship

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bushcraft. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA