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Craft   /kræft/   Listen
noun
Craft  n.  
1.
Strength; might; secret power. (Obs.)
2.
Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade. "Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth." "A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making." "Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute."
3.
Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers. "The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds."
4.
Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices. "You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft." "The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death."
5.
(Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; generally used in a collective sense. "The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake."
Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.



verb
Craft  v. t.  To play tricks; to practice artifice. (Obs.) "You have crafted fair."






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"Craft" Quotes from Famous Books



... St. John and La Prairie, on the banks of the St. Lawrence opposite Montreal. Or, one might go from Albany west by rail as far as Syracuse, up the Mohawk Valley, and so to Oswego, where on Lake Ontario one might find steam or sailing craft. ...
— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough

... of such grosse and fearfull sins within their bounds that they may be Processed and punished according to the Laws of this Kingdom; and that the Presbyteries and Synods be carefull herein, as they will answer to the Generall Assemblies, And because that Witch craft, Charming, and such like proceeds many times from ignorance, Therefore the Assembly ordains all Ministers, especially in these parts where these sins are frequent, to be diligently Preaching, Cathichising, and conferring, to inform ...
— The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland

... way to the bending alders. Ephraim rowed across the glassy water, dark beneath the approach of the storm; the woman stepped into the boat, and the tiny craft came lightly back to its ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston

... stronger wave, for which none are ready, dashes in, and with it tumble ashore, in one great wreck of humanity, small craft and large, stout hulk and swift clipper, helm first, topsail down, forestay-sail in tatters, keel up, everything gone to pieces in the swash of ...
— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage

... resolute, and even impassioned. His flag was hoisted on the frigate Nereide. I followed, with a small corvette of which I had been given command, and which I had hastily commissioned. Except for the torpedo-boats, and such small flotilla craft, I do not believe the whole of our present navy contains such a small vessel as she was She was armed with four thirty-pounders, and sixteen carronades, mere children's toys, and her crew amounted to 100 men. But how pretty she ...
— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville


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