craft UK /ˈkɹɑːft/US /ˈkɹæft/noun 17verb 3forms 3phrases 1 noun17 •a kind of work, learned over a long time, in which things are made by handThe carpenter's craft.He learned his craft as an apprentice. •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. — 2013 •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.Quite near could also be seen several ancient wooden warships, and always a variety of craft slipping up and down the tideway. — 1951 •Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gunboats, generally commanded by lieutenants. •Intellectual power; skill; art. •Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .The Cyclôpes were Brontês, Steropês, and Argês,—formidable persons, equally distinguished for strength and for manual craft […] — 1846 •Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .The craft of writing plays. •Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .[…]and the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. — 1611 •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. •(figurative) A woman.“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. — 1907 •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,[…] — 1784 •Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .[Canton] has a large export trade in hand-made crafts, ivory and furniture. — 1911 •(no longer used) A work or product of art . •(no longer used) Strength; power; might; force .By the craft of nature. — 1526 •(no longer used) Occult art, magic . •(no longer used) A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment . •(no longer used) Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities . verb3 •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. formscrafted · crafting · crafts Phrases with craft sense of craftAn aptitude for craftsmanship.