scoutcraft

plural scoutcrafts · alternative Scoutcraft

1. countableuncountablescoutingA set of mostly outdoor skills learned in scouting that include camping, hiking and pioneering.

   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 […]

   1932, The Irish Monthly, volume 60, page 72

plural scoutcrafts

1. rarehuman sciencesA spacecraft used for scouting.

   Enemy scoutcraft, extreme range.

   1994, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, By Honor Betray'd

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   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.

   1999, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 7

   He flies around the Galaxy all alone in just a little tiny scoutcraft?

   2001, Douglas Kendall, Battle of Infinity City, page 298

   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.

   2006, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers From The Sky, Pocket Books, page 32

   The nearer they closed in; tiny scoutcrafts could be seen continuingly migrating to and from them.

   2013, Chris J. Berry, The Celestial Window, page 137

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of scoutcraft.