Etymology : Middle English, strength, skill, from Old English cræft; akin to Old High German kraft strength
Pronunciation : kraft
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. skillfulness (in doing or creating); creative project; boat, plane; slyness, guile; skill, trade,occupation. shape with skill. craft\craft\ (kr&adot;ft), n. [as. cr?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.].
2. strength; might; secret power. [obs.].
3. 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. xix.
4. a poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. jonson. since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, has the craft of the smith been held in repute.
5. 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. r. green.
6. 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. obbes. the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
7. 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. wilson.
8. Strength; might; secret power.
9. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
10. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.
11. 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.
12. A vessel; vessels of any kind; generally used in a collective sense.
13. To play tricks; to practice artifice. a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception skill in an occupation or trade people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade" make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a complicated tool".
14. craft is both the singular and the plural form for meaning 1..
15. You can refer to a boat, a spacecraft, or an aircraft as a craft. With great difficulty, the fisherman manoeuvred his small craft close to the reef see also:
landing craft.
16. A craft is an activity such as weaving, carving, or pottery that involves making things skilfully with your hands. All kinds of traditional craft industries are preserved here.
17. You can use craft to refer to any activity or job that involves doing something skilfully. Maurice Murphy, one of the country's leading classical trumpeters, learnt his craft with the Black Dyke Mills band.
18. If something is crafted, it is made skilfully. The windows would probably have been crafted in the latter part of the Middle Ages Many delegates were willing to craft a compromise The author extracts the maximum from every carefully-crafted scene in this witty tale. original, hand-crafted bags at affordable prices. to make something using a special skill, especially with your hands.
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