Definitions for: Craft


[n] the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice"
[n] a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
[n] shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
[n] skill in an occupation or trade
[n] people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade"
[v] make by hand and with much skill



Webster (1913) Definition: Craft (kr[.a]ft), n. [AS. cr[ae]ft strength, skill, art,
cunning; akin to OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft strength, D.
kracht, Icel. kraptr; perh. originally, a drawing together,
stretching, from the root of E. cramp.]
1. Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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.
--Acts xix.
25.

A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill
or craft of making. --B. Jonson.

Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and
nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in
repute. --Longfellow.

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. --J. R. Green.

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.
--Hobbes.

The chief priets and the scribes sought how they
might take him by craft, and put him to death.
--Mark xiv. 1.

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. --Prof.
Wilson.

Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.


Craft, v. t.
To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]

You have crafted fair. --Shak.

Synonyms: craftiness, craftsmanship, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, trade, trade, wiliness, workmanship

See Also: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, aircraft, airplane mechanics, astuteness, attainment, auto mechanics, ballistic capsule, basketry, bookbinding, business, carpentry, class, cobbling, drafting, dressmaking, electrical work, fashion, forge, ground-effect machine, handcraft, house painting, housecraft, hovercraft, interior decoration, interior design, job, landing craft, line, line of work, lumbering, masonry, mechanical drawing, occupation, painting, papermaking, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, pilotage, piloting, plumbery, plumbing, pottery, priestcraft, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, roofing, sheet-metal work, shingling, shoe repairing, shoemaking, shrewdness, skill, social class, socio-economic class, space vehicle, spacecraft, stagecraft, tailoring, tool-and-die work, tradecraft, typography, undertaking, upholstery, vehicle, vessel, watercraft, watercraft, winemaking, woodcraft, woodwork, woodworking

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