Craft

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
     1. Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment;
        hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a
        trade.
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              Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
                                                    --Acts xix.
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              A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill
              or craft of making.                   --B. Jonson.
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              Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and
              nations,
              Has the craft of the smith been held in repute.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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     3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild;
        as, the craft of ironmongers.
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              The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds
              to the new craft guilds.              --J. R. Green.
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     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.
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              You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft.
                                                    --Hobbes.
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              The chief priests and the scribes sought how they
              might take him by craft, and put him to death.
                                                    --Mark xiv. 1.
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     5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used
        in a collective sense.
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              The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving
              over the lake.                        --Prof.
                                                    Wilson.
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     {Small crafts}, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Craft \Craft\, v. t.
     To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]
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           You have crafted fair.                   --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  craft
       n 1: the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned
            his trade as an apprentice" [syn: {trade}]
       2: a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or
          through outer space
       3: people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he
          represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the
          trade" [syn: {trade}]
       4: skill in an occupation or trade [syn: {craftsmanship}, {workmanship}]
       5: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
          [syn: {craftiness}, {cunning}, {foxiness}, {guile}, {slyness},
           {wiliness}]
       v : make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a
           complicated tool"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  230 Moby Thesaurus words for "craft":
     Italian hand, ability, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness,
     aeroplane, aircraft, airmanship, animal cunning, argosy, art,
     artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, artisan work, artisanship,
     artistry, astuteness, bark, blind, boat, bottom, bravura,
     brilliance, bucket, business, cageyness, callidity, calling,
     canniness, capability, capacity, career, career building,
     careerism, chicanery, cleverness, command, competence, conspiracy,
     contrivance, control, coordination, coup, craftiness,
     craftsmanship, craftwork, cunning, cunningness, cute trick, deceit,
     deceitfulness, deftness, design, device, deviousness, dexterity,
     dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, dodge, duplicity,
     efficiency, expedient, expertise, expertness, fabricate, facility,
     fakement, falseheartedness, falseness, fashion, feint, fetch,
     fine Italian hand, finesse, flair, foxiness, fraud, furtiveness,
     gambit, game, gamesmanship, genius, gimmick, grace, grift, grip,
     guile, guilefulness, handicraft, handiness, handiwork, hooker,
     horsemanship, hovercraft, hulk, hull, hypocrisy, indirection,
     industrial art, industrial design, ingeniousness, ingenuity,
     insidiousness, intrigue, inventiveness, job, jugglery, keel,
     knavery, know-how, leviathan, lifework, line, line of business,
     line of work, little game, low cunning, make, maneuver, manual art,
     marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mechanics, mechanism,
     metalcraft, method, metier, mission, move, mystery, number,
     occupation, one-upmanship, packet, pawkiness, plane, plot, ploy,
     practical ability, practice, profession, proficiency, prowess,
     pursuit, quickness, racket, readiness, red herring, resource,
     resourcefulness, rocket, ruse, satanic cunning, savoir-faire,
     savvy, scheme, science, seamanship, sharpness, shift, shiftiness,
     ship, shrewdness, skill, skillfulness, sleight, slickness,
     slipperiness, slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, sophistry,
     spacecraft, spaceship, specialization, specialty, stealth,
     stealthiness, stonecraft, stratagem, strategy, style, subterfuge,
     subtility, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness,
     surreptitiousness, tact, tactfulness, tactic, talent, technic,
     technical brilliance, technical know-how, technical knowledge,
     technical mastery, technical skill, technics, technique,
     technology, timing, trade, treacherousness, trick, trickery,
     trickiness, tub, underhandedness, vessel, virtuosity, vocation,
     walk, walk of life, wariness, watercraft, wile, wiles, wiliness,
     wily device, wit, wizardry, woodcraft, work, workmanship
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  CRAFT
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