craft

nounexpertise, skill
noundeceit, scheme
nounbusiness, discipline
nounwater or air vehicle

Synonyms for craft

noun expertise, skill

Antonyms for craft

Word Origin & History

Old English cræft, originally "power, physical strength, might," from Proto-Germanic *krab-/*kraf- (cf. Old Frisian kreft, Old High German chraft, German Kraft "strength, skill;" Old Norse kraptr "strength, virtue"). Sense expanded in Old English to include "skill, art, science, talent" (via a notion of "mental power"), which led to the meaning "trade, handicraft, calling." The word still was used for "might, power" in Middle English.

Use for "small boat" is first recorded 1670s, probably from a phrase resembling vessels of small craft and referring either to the trade they did or the seamanship they required, or perhaps it preserves the word in its original sense of "power."

Example Sentences for craft

But how could you be a wise master without learning the craft?

Yet I hold that the true art of my craft lies as much in the furnace as in the brush.

Nothing was said, but they got silently into the boat, which might have been Charon's craft for all he could see of it.

The least hesitation or a false movement, and both aviator and craft are in danger.

This was a precaution we always took, on account of the craft's being so tender.

This craft was unfit for her duty, but time pressed, and no better offered.

When we reached his craft, he poured out a glass of brandy and offered it to me.

The craft was a good one, though our passage out was very long.

As he said she was a schooner, however, I thought it must be one of our own craft, and got her direction from him.

The craft made but two raps on the bar, when she drifted clear.

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ability

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