Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system of manual training developed in Sweden, based on the use of tools in woodworking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sloid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lit., skilled mechanical work, such as that required in wood carving; trade work; hence, a system (usually called the
sloyd system ) of manual training in the practical use of the tools and materials used in the trades, and of instruction in the making and use of the plans and specifications connected with trade work. The sloyd system derives its name from the fact that it was adopted or largely developed from a similar Swedish system, in which wood carving was a chief feature. Its purpose is not only to afford practical skill in some trade, but also to develop the pupils mentally and physically.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun skilled mechanical work; trade work; hence, a system (usually called the sloyd system) of manual training in the practical use of the tools and materials used in the trades, and of instruction in the making and use of the plans and specifications connected with trade work.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Sweden, likewise, the same principles have been introduced chiefly by Herr Otto Salomon, the director of the great sloyd seminarum at Naas.
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I like mathematics, and sloyd, and a hammer and nails and saw.
Stories Worth Rereading Various
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The skill with which Sweden has reduced domestic art and sloyd [1] to pedagogic form was already well known in this country, but it has excited new interest by its presentation here in one of the most admirably systematized and suggestive exhibits in the collection.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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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.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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Sometimes we go to the park, but when it storms we are glad to stay in the house and work at sewing or sloyd.
Gerda in Sweden Etta Blaisdell McDonald
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In Sweden, likewise, the same principles have been introduced chiefly by Herr Otto Salomon, the director of the great sloyd seminarum at Naas.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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The regular teachers look upon the fifth and sixth grade sloyd [* sic] which they teach with no great enthusiasm.
What the Schools Teach and Might Teach John Franklin Bobbitt
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Why, some of those little chaps in the sloyd room can chisel and plane like carpenters.
The Story of Porcelain Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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One of his conclusions is that the so-called technical exercises, gymnastics, manual training, sloyd, and the like, are not, as they are erroneously called, a relaxation from mental overstrain by change in work, but simply a new form of brain fatigue.
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United States, unlike in other nations, began as a highly organized technical type of high-school instruction, [22] while the elementary - school sloyd and the household arts for girls came in later.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
whichbe commented on the word sloyd
Skilled work (usually manufacturing) which requires dexterous use of tools.
May 14, 2008
qms commented on the word sloyd
Why must we assemble and be annoyed
And labor in ways we could avoid?
The basic idea
Informing IKEA
Is for Swedes to make use of their sloyd.
October 17, 2014