craft
noun
[ krɑːft ]
• an activity involving skill in making things by hand.
• "the craft of cobbling"
Similar:
activity,
pursuit,
occupation,
work,
line,
line of work,
profession,
job,
business,
line of business,
trade,
employment,
position,
post,
situation,
career,
métier,
vocation,
calling,
skill,
field,
province,
walk of life,
way,
racket,
game,
grip,
employ,
• skill used in deceiving others.
• "her cousin was not her equal in guile and evasive craft"
Similar:
cunning,
craftiness,
guile,
wiliness,
artfulness,
deviousness,
slyness,
trickery,
trickiness,
duplicity,
dishonesty,
cheating,
deceitfulness,
deceit,
deception,
sharp practice,
chicanery,
intrigue,
palace intrigue,
scheming,
strategy,
subterfuge,
evasion,
wiles,
ploys,
schemes,
stratagems,
tactics,
manoeuvres,
tricks,
ruses,
foxiness,
monkey business,
funny business,
hanky-panky,
jiggery-pokery,
every trick in the book,
• a boat or ship.
• "sailing craft"
craft
verb
• exercise skill in making (an object), typically by hand.
• "he crafted the chair lovingly"
Origin:
Old English cræft ‘strength, skill’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kracht, German Kraft, and Swedish kraft ‘strength’. craft (sense 3 of the noun), originally in the expression small craft ‘small trading vessels’, may be elliptical, referring to vessels requiring a small amount of ‘craft’ or skill to handle, as opposed to large ocean-going ships.
