Craft

Noun

 * 1)  The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
 * She represented the craft of brewers.
 * 1)  Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc.
 * 2) * “An Act for encouraging and regulating Fiſheries”, in Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America, T. Green (1784), page 79:
 * 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, 
 * 1) * 1869 April 27, C. M. Scammon, Edward D. Cope (editor), “On the Cetaceans of the Western Coast of North America”, in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Volume 21, page 46:
 * The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship.
 * 1) * Charles Boardman Hawes, “A Boy Who Went Whaling”, in The Highest Hit: and Other Selections by Newbery Authors,  Gareth Stevens Publishing (2001), ISBN 9780836828566, page 47:
 * From the mate’s boat they removed, at his direction, all whaling gear and craft except the oars and a single lance.
 * 1) * 1950, in Discovery Reports, Volume 26, Cambridge University Press, page 318:
 * Temple, a negro of New Bedford, who made ‘whalecraft’, that is, was a blacksmith engaged in working from iron the special utensils or ‘craft’ of the whaling trade.
 * 1) * 1991, Joan Druett, Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920, University Press of New England (2001), ISBN 978-1-58465-159-8, page 55:
 * The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
 * 3)  A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.
 * 4)  A particular kind of skilled work.
 * ''He learned his craft as an apprentice.
 * 1)  Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.

Derived terms

 * aircraft
 * hovercraft
 * spacecraft


 * spycraft
 * warcraft
 * watercraft

Synonyms

 * craftsmanship, workmanship
 * trade
 * craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
 * trade
 * craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness

Verb

 * 1) To make by hand and with much skill.
 * 2) To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman): "state crafting", "crafting global policing".

Find words for Craft
(boat)

Adjectives
stately;  leaky;   weatherly;   ponderous; ghostly; frail-looking; multitudinous (pi) ; tidy; ill-equipped; clumsy; unseaworthy; aging; tiny; speedy; graceful; small; trim; little; slow; toiling; disabled; staunch; makeshift; slender; strange-looking; waterlogged; ridiculous.

(skill)

Adjectives
hellish; inexhaustible; vulpine; consummate; purloined; mechanical; extraordinary; manual; devilish; elfin; earthly; astonishing; slippery; subtle; inveterate; intervening; peaceful; ancient; coy; crude; indolent;  pleasurable;   strange-looking; diabolical; contentious; waterlogged.

Verbs
apply—; beguile with—; counterfeit—; devote to—; display—; exhibit—; follow—; learn—; master—; perform with—; pursue—; skill in—; study—; trick with—; verse in—; —deceives; ——occupies; — thrives.

Thesaurus
Italian hand, ability, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, aeroplane, aircraft, airmanship, animal cunning, argosy, art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, artisan work, artisanship, artistry, astuteness, bark, blind, boat, bottom, bravura, brilliance, bucket, business, cageyness, callidity, calling, canniness, capability, capacity, career, career building, careerism, chicanery, cleverness, command, competence, conspiracy, contrivance, control, coordination, coup, craftiness, craftsmanship, craftwork, cunning, cunningness, cute trick, deceit, deceitfulness, deftness, design, device, deviousness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, dodge, duplicity, efficiency, expedient, expertise, expertness, fabricate, facility, fakement, falseheartedness, falseness, fashion, feint, fetch, fine Italian hand, finesse, flair, foxiness, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, game, gamesmanship, genius, gimmick, grace, grift, grip, guile, guilefulness, handicraft, handiness, handiwork, hooker, horsemanship, hovercraft, hulk, hull, hypocrisy, indirection, industrial art, industrial design, ingeniousness, ingenuity, insidiousness, intrigue, inventiveness, job, jugglery, keel, knavery, know-how, leviathan, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, little game, low cunning, make, maneuver, manual art, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mechanics, mechanism, metalcraft, method, metier, mission, move, mystery, number, occupation, one-upmanship, packet, pawkiness, plane, plot, ploy, practical ability, practice, profession, proficiency, prowess, pursuit, quickness, racket, readiness, red herring, resource, resourcefulness, rocket, ruse, satanic cunning, savoir-faire, savvy, scheme, science, seamanship, sharpness, shift, shiftiness, ship, shrewdness, skill, skillfulness, sleight, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, sophistry, spacecraft, spaceship, specialization, specialty, stealth, stealthiness, stonecraft, stratagem, strategy, style, subterfuge, subtility, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, surreptitiousness, tact, tactfulness, tactic, talent, technic, technical brilliance, technical know-how, technical knowledge, technical mastery, technical skill, technics, technique, technology, timing, trade, treacherousness, trick, trickery, trickiness, tub, underhandedness, vessel, virtuosity, vocation, walk, walk of life, wariness, watercraft, wile, wiles, wiliness, wily device, wit, wizardry, woodcraft, work, workmanship

Etymology
From cræft: (compare Old Frisian creft:), with the sense shift to "skill, art" probably leading to the related "trade", thus the first nautical use (1671) relating to smaller vessels (nautical use for tools of fishing trade unclear).

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, професия
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: fako, metio
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish:


 * Japanese:
 * Maltese: sengħa, artiġjanat
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ремесло
 * Serbian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: плавателен съд
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:


 * German: Fahrzeug, Lenkfahrzeug
 * Greek:
 * Irish:, ,


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: еснаф, гилдия
 * Dutch: ambacht, ambachtslui m, pl, vaklui m, pl, stielmannen m, pl
 * Esperanto: metio, metiistoj, fakuloj


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Maltese: artiġjanatur
 * Serbian: zanatlija, zanatlijka


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, умение
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: käsityötaito, työtaito
 * Irish:
 * Japanese:


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: умение, сноровка, искусство
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: хитрост
 * Dutch: gewiekstheid
 * Esperanto: ruzeco
 * Finnish: juonikkuus


 * German: Schlauheit Geriebenheit
 * Russian: хитрость
 * Serbian:

Verb

 * Bulgarian: изработвам на ръка
 * Catalan: fet a mà
 * Dutch: handbewerken
 * German: handgemacht


 * Russian: мастерить, проявлять мастерство, изготавливать вручную
 * Serbian: ručno napravljeno
 * Spanish:


 * Spanish: ,