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English Dictionary: craft by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
craft
n
  1. the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): craft, trade
  4. skill in an occupation or trade
    Synonym(s): craft, craftsmanship, workmanship
  5. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
    Synonym(s): craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
v
  1. make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a complicated tool"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Craft \Craft\ (kr[adot]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.
  
      2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment;
            hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a
            trade.
  
                     Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
                                                                              --Acts xix.
                                                                              25.
  
                     A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill
                     or craft of making.                           --B. Jonson.
  
                     Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and
                     nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in
                     repute.                                             --Longfellow.
  
      3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild;
            as, the craft of ironmongers.
  
                     The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds
                     to the new craft guilds.                     --J. R. Green.
  
      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.
  
                     You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft.
                                                                              --Hobbes.
  
                     The chief priets and the scribes sought how they
                     might take him by craft, and put him to death.
                                                                              --Mark xiv. 1.
  
      5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used
            in a collective sense.
  
                     The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving
                     over the lake.                                    --Prof.
                                                                              Wilson.
  
      {Small crafts}, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Craft \Craft\, v. t.
      To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]
  
               You have crafted fair.                           --Shak.
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