The Collaborative International Dictionary
Craft \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.]
Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.-
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. -
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. -
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 priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
--Mark xiv. 1. -
(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.
Usage examples of "small crafts".
But some had fled out to sea, small crafts riding low in the water, dangerously overloaded with children, pets, and valuables.
The prince walked through the awakened city, threading his way among the stalls displaying the skills of the workmen in the small crafts.
New industries congealed, from small crafts and manufacturing that made use of the planet's extensive hardwood forests to a pair of mines that extracted useful metals from beneath the surface.
One mighty splash, creating its own miniature tidal wave that had small crafts moored nearby threatening to capsize, and then it was lost to sight, the black waters closing over it.
Disappearing now in the rence of the marshes, under the three moons, were the many small crafts of the rencers.
Their small crafts heavier antimatter loads and the gunboats new effectiveness?
No one had ever figured out how to build a fighter inertial compensator with the efficiency of a starship's or even a larger small crafts.