craft

noun

1. (obsolete, uncountable)Strength; power; might; force .

   “By the craft of nature.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Intellectual power; skill; art.

   “The Cyclôpes were Brontês, Steropês, and Argês,—formidable persons, equally distinguished for strength and for manual craft […]”

   “England should have had enough against a very ordinary Russia to complete the job but Rooney's removal robbed them of his craft and guidance and now increases the pressure on Thursday's meeting with Wales in Lens.”

3. (countable, uncountable)Intellectual power; skill; art.

   “[…]and the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.”

   “[…] you have that Crooked Wisdome, which is called Craft […]”

   “We have not the strength with which to fight this man; we must dissimulate, and win, if win we can, by craft.”

4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Intellectual power; skill; art.
5. (countable, obsolete)A work or product of art .
6. (collective, countable, obsolete, plural, uncountable)A work or product of art .

   “[Canton] has a large export trade in hand-made crafts, ivory and furniture.”

7. (countable, obsolete)A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .

   “For your entente I shall a craft devise […] That ye shall haue your purpose euery dele.”

8. (countable, obsolete)Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .

   “[…] Þe seuen craftes all he can […]”

9. (uncountable)Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .

   “The craft of writing plays.”

   “A poem […] is the work of the poet; the end and fruit of his labour and study. Poesy is his skill or craft of making; the very fiction itself, the reason or form of the work.”

   “It is counted […] good workmanship in a Joyner, to have the craft of bearing his hand so curiously even, the whole length of a long Board.”

10. (countable, plural)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 .

    “The carpenter's craft.”

    “He learned his craft as an apprentice.”

    “[…] For since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, / Has the craft of the smith been held in repute by the people.”

    “Fond as William was of the craft of the woods, he was the least likely of all men to let his sport stand in the way of his interest.”

    “The great preachers were masters of their craft.”

11. (countable)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’ .

    “She represented the craft of brewers.”

12. (countable)A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .

    “Thanks to British designer Ross Kemp, the world has been graced with a solar-powered watercraft that costs just a third of the price of your average powered water craft.”

13. (countable, uncountable)A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .

    “Quite near could also be seen several ancient wooden warships, and always a variety of craft slipping up and down the tideway.”

14. (British-Royal-Navy, countable, uncountable)A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
15. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .

    ““A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.”

16. (countable)Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

    “And whereas the continual Interruption of the Courſe and Paſſage of the Fiſh up the Rivers, by the daily drawing of Seins and other Fiſh-Craft, tends to prevent their Increaſe,[…]”

    “The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship.”

    “From the mate’s boat they removed, at his direction, all whaling gear and craft except the oars and a single lance.”

    “[…]Temple, a negro of New Bedford, who made ‘whalecraft’, that is, was a blacksmith engaged in working from iron the special utensils or ‘craft’ of the whaling trade.”

    “The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above.”

verb

1. To make by hand and with much skill.
2. To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).

   “state crafting; the process of crafting global policing”

3. To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

name

1. A surname.