Wiktionary
gentle craft
n. 1 (context archaic English) shoemaking; the trade of a cobbler. 2 (context archaic English) fishing; angling.
Usage examples of "gentle craft".
He seemed a quiet, kindly, easy-mannered, dignified, self-possessed old gentleman of fifty-five or sixty, and had a gentle craft in his eye that probably belonged there.
Beside him, on the arm of his great chair, roosted his favorite falcon, for the Prior was fond of the gentle craft of hawking.