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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



... particular tar could not find fault. The other represents a "scene at sea." It is inclosed in a box about two feet long and a foot and a half in hight. One side of the box is glass, and through it can be seen two miniature vessels. The craft in the foreground would be known among sailors as a "Jack." She is neither a brig nor a bark, but rather a combination of both. She is armed, and the cannon can be seen protruding from her port-holes. Every sail is set, and she seems ...
— Frank, the Young Naturalist • Harry Castlemon

... my own had flitted by, and the gondoliers had warned each other at every turning with hoarse, lugubrious cries; the lines of balconied palaces had never ended;—here and there at their doors larger craft were moored, with dim figures of men moving uncertainly about on them. At last we had passed abruptly out of the Grand Canal into one of the smaller channels, and from comparative light into a darkness only remotely ...
— Venetian Life • W. D. Howells

... great craft in persuasion, the two were allowed to pass Mailelaulii's front. And they went on, and met ...
— The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai • Anonymous

... will save my life, if I'm to be his friend, as you seem to say, Mrs. Sheppard. But I've not promised to stand by him yet; nor will I, unless he turns out an honest lad,—mind that. Of all crafts,—and it was the only craft his poor father, who, to do him justice, was one of the best workmen that ever handled a saw or drove a nail, could never understand,—of all crafts, I say, to be an honest man is the master-craft. As long as your son observes that precept I'll befriend him, ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

... recognized the fact that its servitude springs from numbers. Seldom, however, has it applied its knowledge logically and thoroughly. The basic principle of craft unionism is limitation of the number of workers in a given trade. This has been labor's most frequent expedient for righting its wrongs. Every unionist knows, as a matter of course, that if that number is kept small enough, his organization can compel increases of wages, steady employment ...
— Woman and the New Race • Margaret Sanger


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