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Borrowed from Swedish slöjd (handicraft, handiwork, skills). Doublet of sleight.

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sloyd (countable and uncountable, plural sloyds)

  1. A Scandinavian system of handicraft-based education that emphasizes the importance of practical, hands-on work to develop cognitive and problem-solving skills. In particular, it is often associated with woodworking and carving, but can include other crafts as well.
    • 1947, Unesco, International Bureau of Education, Proceedings and Recommendations[1], Digitized edition, published 2009:
      He asked what exactly was the position given to the "sloyds" (handicrafts) in teaching …
  2. A knife for carving.
    • 1910, William Noyes, Handwork in Wood[2], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2007:
      The sloyd knife, Fig. 84, is a tool likely to be misused in the hands of small children, but when sharp and in strong hands, has many valuable uses.
    • 1933 June, W. Clyde Lammey, “Tricks of Sharpening Knives”, in Popular Mechanics[3], volume 59, number 6, page 951:
      … woodcarvers' knives or sloyds, chisels and plane irons, …

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