scoutcraft

See also: Scoutcraft

English

Etymology 1

From scout +‎ -craft.

Alternative forms

Noun

scoutcraft (countable and uncountable, plural scoutcrafts)

  1. (scouting) A set of mostly outdoor skills learned in scouting that include camping, hiking and pioneering.
    • 1932, The Irish Monthly, volume 60, page 72:
      Healthcraft is a further and most important branch of scoutcraft. To secure endurance, physical power, physical courage and skill, it is necessary to have the body in the best possible condition for doing its work […]

Etymology 2

From scout +‎ -craft.

Noun

scoutcraft (plural scoutcrafts or scoutcraft)

  1. (rare, science fiction, ufology) A spacecraft used for scouting.
    • 1994, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, By Honor Betray'd‎[1]:
      Enemy scoutcraft, extreme range.
    • 1999, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 7:
      In August 1954 a Venusian scoutcraft allegedly flew Adamski around the moon, showing him extraterrestrial cities and hangars as well as forests, lakes, and rivers.
    • 2001, Douglas Kendall, Battle of Infinity City, page 298:
      He flies around the Galaxy all alone in just a little tiny scoutcraft?
    • 2006, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers From The Sky, Pocket Books, page 32:
      In the ensuing years it had never come to that, yet every scoutcraft was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism, and every commander was prepared at all times to activate it.
    • 2013, Chris J. Berry, The Celestial Window, page 137:
      The nearer they closed in; tiny scoutcrafts could be seen continuingly migrating to and from them.
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