sheltercraft

English

Etymology

From shelter +‎ -craft.

Noun

sheltercraft (uncountable)

1. The set of knowledge and skills needed to construct and maintain shelter in the wilderness.
   • 1980, Naturalist:

     […] use of clothing and equipment, pre-trip preparation and packing, food preparation and preservation, sheltercraft, recognition and treatment of environmental injuries, and emergency survival techniques.

   • 2012, Joe O'Leary, The Wilderness Survival Guide: The Practical Skills You Need for the Great Outdoors, Watkins Media Limited, →ISBN:

     My first experience of real sheltercraft was during a visit as a teenager to a reconstructed Iron-Age roundhouse on the site of an ancient fort in south-west Wales. As I walked through the doorway, under the hewn timber lintel, […]

   • 2015, David Wescott, Camping in the Old Style, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:

     SHELTERCRAFT—Knowledge and skills utilized by the woodsman to select, prepare, and maintain bedding and tentage, as well as an understanding of campsite and environmental factors affecting the camp.

   • 2019, Stephen Enna, The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday: The Story of the Making of the First United States Navy Woman Seal, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

     She was taught first about wilderness survival including firecraft, sheltercraft, traps and snares, food and water procurement, preservation and purifying and how to improvise when she didn't have the equipment she needed.