Definition of "pencraft" []

• Penmanship; skill in writing; the art of writing (noun)

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• "She has a fine command of language, and in her conversation or her addresses to assemblies of ladies, one may at once detect the tone and ease of manner of a woman trained to pencraft."
• ""Get thee back to thy pencraft, and when it is done come to me at the Fort, I have work for thee.""
• "'It is scarcely to be expected that one who tries his hand at so many kinds of pencraft should always excel; yet such is the force of DE"