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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Handicraft \Hand"i*craft\ (h[a^]nd"[i^]*kr[.a]ft), noun [For handcraft, influenced by handiwork; AS. handcr[ae]ft.]
1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. --Addison.
2. A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. [R.] --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
handicraft
noun
1: a work produced by hand labor [syn: {handcraft}, {handiwork}, {handwork}]
2: a craft that requires skillful hands
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "handicraft": architecture, art, artisan work, artisanship, assembly, building, business, calling, career, career building, careerism, casting, composition, construction, conversion, craft, crafting, craftsmanship, craftwork, creation, cultivation, devising, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, game, growing, handiwork, harvesting, industrial art, industrial design, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, machining, making, manual art, manufacture, manufacturing, metalcraft, metier, milling, mining, mission, molding, mystery, number, occupation, practice, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, profession, pursuit, racket, raising, refining, shaping, smelting, specialization, specialty, stonecraft, trade, vocation, walk, walk of life, woodcraft, work, workmanship
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