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Craft

noun

1.

The skilled practice of a practical occupation. Synonym: 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. Synonym: trade. "As they say in the trade"

4.

Skill in an occupation or trade. Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship.

5.

Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception. Synonyms: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness.

verb

1.

Make by hand and with much skill.

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"Craft" Quotes from Famous Books

... and straightway shall the quarrel be healed. (To the others.) Be the matter, then, known to all. Five winters ago came Sigurd and Gunnar Headman as vikings to Iceland; they lay in harbour close under my homestead. Then Gunnar, by force and craft, carried away my foster-daughter, Hiordis; but thou, Sigurd, didst take Dagny, my own child, and sailed with her over the sea. For that thou art now doomed to pay three hundred pieces of silver, and thereby shall ...

— The Vikings of Helgeland - The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III. • Henrik Ibsen

... reaching out even into the Mong. And the Mong itself—with its cool sharp glitter in the stirring wind, and the swash of its blue waves at the very foot of the little paling about the house; its white-sailed craft, its ...

— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner

... favourable wind and spring tides, so that they might be put to sea without running the risk of thumping their keels off on the Bar. The vessels had been loaded for several weeks. Many of them were bound to the Baltic. These were spoken of as the "Spring Fleet." The older and smaller craft were engaged in the coasting trade, and the larger were bound to ports in the southern hemisphere. Each of them carried three or four apprentices; but the southern-going portion did not deem the collier lads "classy" enough to permit of them forming close ...

— The Shellback's Progress - In the Nineteenth Century • Walter Runciman

... craft depart there came into my mind the memory of a picture in an old Latin book of my father's, which represented the souls of the dead being paddled by a person named Charon across a river called the Styx. The scene before us bore a great resemblance ...

— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard

... her fate! The boat has always been in harbour, but now it is about to put out to sea. It will meet there another craft. This other craft is, to Madame, a foreign craft, and I grieve to say it, rather battered. But its timbers are sound, and that is well, for it looks to me as if the sails of Madame's boat would mingle, at any rate for a time with ...

— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes

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