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craft
/ˈkɹæft/
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What does craft mean?
noun
- Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
- Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .
- Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
More meanings (17)
noun
- 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.
- Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gunboats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
- (figuratively) A woman.
- Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .
- (obsolete) Strength; power; might; force .
- (obsolete) Occult art, magic .
- (obsolete) A work or product of art .
- (obsolete) Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .
- (obsolete) A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
- (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 .
verb
- 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.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɹæft/
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He would have to pilot his own craft, however, as these frail vessels are not intended to convey but a single person.
Soon after the Porpoise came in, and I joined my old craft, giving up my command of the captured slaver rather reluctantly.
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It was an excellent craft to go with the current, for there was twice as much of it below water as above.
The first aeroplane made by the two brothers was a very simple one, as was the method adopted to balance the craft.
It was sub-division as practised in connection with vessels ploughing the water applied to aerial craft, the purpose being somewhat the same.