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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. the skilled practice of a practical occupation;
- Example: "he learned his trade as an apprentice"
[syn: trade, craft]

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;
- Example: "he represented the craft of brewers"
- Example: "as they say in the trade"
[syn: craft, trade]

4. skill in an occupation or trade;
[syn: craft, craftsmanship, workmanship]

5. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception;
[syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness]


VERB (1)

1. make by hand and with much skill;
- Example: "The artisan crafted a complicated tool"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade. [1913 Webster] Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. --Acts xix. 25. [1913 Webster] A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers. [1913 Webster] The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. --Hobbes. [1913 Webster] The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. --Mark xiv. 1. [1913 Webster] 5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense. [1913 Webster] The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster] Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Craft \Craft\, v. t. To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] You have crafted fair. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

craft n 1: the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice" [syn: trade, craft] 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: craft, trade] 4: skill in an occupation or trade [syn: craft, craftsmanship, workmanship] 5: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness] v 1: make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a complicated tool"