craft

Meanings

Plural: craft, crafts

Noun

• the skilled practice of a practical occupation
• a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
• people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
  • "he represented the craft of brewers"
• skill in an occupation or trade
• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
• Strength; power; might; force .
• Intellectual power; skill; art.
• Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
• Intellectual power; skill; art.
• Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .
• Intellectual power; skill; art.
• Occult art, magic .
• A work or product of art .
• A work or product of art .
• Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .
• A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
• Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
• Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
• A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
• A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
• A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
• Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.
• A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
• Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gunboats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
• A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
• A woman.
• Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

Verb

• make by hand and with much skill
  • "The artisan crafted a complicated tool"
• To make by hand and with much skill.
• To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
• To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

Synonyms

art, business, craftiness, craftsmanship, cunning, foxiness, guile, handicraft, profession, slyness, trade, wiliness, workmanship