Craft n.
1. Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.]
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 priests 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.