small crafts
Webster's Dictionary (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. [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]