different between scouting vs scoutcraft

English

Alternative forms

• Scouting

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ska?t??/

  Rhymes: -a?t??

Noun

scouting (countable and uncountable, plural scoutings)

1. The act of one who scouts.
   • 1935, State Publication (issues 136–145, page 73)

     Careful scoutings by the State Department of Agriculture and Markets were made in 1935, to determine the limits of invasion […]

2. The Scout Movement.
3. The activities of boy scouts and girl scouts.

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From scout +? -craft.

Alternative forms

• Scoutcraft

Noun

scoutcraft (countable and uncountable, plural scoutcrafts)

1. (Scouting) A set of outdoor skills learned in scouting that include camping, hiking and pioneering

Etymology 2

From scout +? -craft.

Noun

scoutcraft (plural scoutcrafts or scoutcraft)

1. (rare, science fiction, ufology) A spacecraft used for scouting.
   • 1994, Debra Doyle and 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.