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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



... by what they saw, and for the instant they neither moved nor spoke. They saw the small man in the boat look over the side into the stream where his assailant had plunged from sight, then this fellow caught up a single oar that remained in the craft, and commenced ...
— The Rover Boys in Business • Arthur M. Winfield

... craft of the Iroquois, lady, if you judge they have left the path open to the woods!" returned Hawkeye, who, however, immediately added in his simplicity, "the down stream current, it is certain, might soon sweep us beyond the reach of their rifles or ...
— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper

... I do not wish my honest memorial to degenerate into panegyric. Among her latest known acts were her gifts to the Sicilian cause, and her manifestations on behalf of the antislavery cause in the United States. Her kindness to William and Ellen Craft must be well known there; and it is also related in the newspapers, that she bequeathed a legacy to a young American to assist him under any disadvantages he might suffer as ...
— Lady Byron Vindicated • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... five o'clock on the evening above mentioned; the Gentile lies but little more than a cable's length from the shore, so that you can almost look down upon her decks. You perceive that she is a handsome craft of some six or seven hundred tons burthen, standing high out of water, in ballast trim, with a black hull, bright waist, and wales painted white. Her bows flare very much, and are sharp and symmetrical; the cut-water stretches, with a graceful curve, far out ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... roomy, and are, as they need to be, good sea-boats; for they have at times to live in rough water that would swamp lighter craft like cockle-shells. Each boat carries two men and a boy, that being the regular crew of a bawley; although, perhaps, for rough winter work, they may sometimes take an extra hand. In the bow of the first boat that comes tearing along up to the wharf sits a good-looking lad, about ...
— A Chapter of Adventures • G. A. Henty


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