4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Craft \Craft\, v. t.
To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]
You have crafted fair. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
craft
n 1: the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned
his trade as an apprentice" [syn: {trade}]
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" [syn: {trade}]
4: skill in an occupation or trade [syn: {craftsmanship}, {workmanship}]
5: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
[syn: {craftiness}, {cunning}, {foxiness}, {guile}, {slyness},
{wiliness}]
v : make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a
complicated tool"
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
CRAFT
Cray Research Adaptive FORTRAN (Cray, MPP, FORTRAN)