Definition of CRAFT

craft

Plural: craft, crafts

Noun

  • the skilled practice of a practical occupation
  • a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
  • people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
    • "he represented the craft of brewers"
  • skill in an occupation or trade
  • shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  • Strength; power; might; force .
  • Intellectual power; skill; art.
  • Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
  • Intellectual power; skill; art.
  • Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .
  • Intellectual power; skill; art.
  • Occult art, magic .
  • A work or product of art .
  • A work or product of art .
  • Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .
  • A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
  • Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
  • Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
  • 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.
  • A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
  • Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gunboats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
  • A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
  • A woman.
  • Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

Verb

Verb Forms: crafted, crafting, crafts

  • To make or create something skillfully by hand.
  • make by hand and with much skill
    • "The artisan crafted a complicated tool"
  • 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.

Examples

  • He learned his craft as an apprentice.
  • She represented the craft of brewers.
  • She would CRAFT intricate words, connecting them across the Scrabble board for maximum points.
  • The carpenter's craft.
  • The craft of writing plays.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”) and Danish kraft (“strength, power, force”).

Scrabble Score: 10

craft: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
craft: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
craft: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

craft: valid Words With Friends Word