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craft

craft (third-person singular simple present crafts, present participle crafting, simple past and past participle crafted)

1. To make by hand and with much skill.
2. To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman): ""state crafting"", ""crafting global policing"".

craft (countable and uncountable; plural craft or crafts)

1. (obsolete) Strength; power; might.
2. (uncountable) Ability; dexterity; skill, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs; adroitness; practical cunning.
3. (uncountable) Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
4. (obsolete) A device; a means; an art; art in general.
5. (countable, plural: crafts) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
6. The members of a trade collectively; guild.

   She represented the craft of brewers.

7. (nautical, whaling) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc.
   • a. 1784, “An Act for encouraging and regulating Fi?heries”, in Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America, T. Green (1784), page 79:

     And whereas the continual Interruption of the Cour?e and Pa??age of the Fi?h up the Rivers, by the daily drawing of Seins and other Fi?h-Craft, tends to prevent their Increa?e, […]

   • 1869 April 27, C. M. Scammon, Edward D. Cope (editor), “On the Cetaceans of the Western Coast of North America”, in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Volume 21, page 46:

     The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship.

   • a. 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, “A Boy Who Went Whaling”, in The Highest Hit: and Other Selections by Newbery Authors,^[1] Gareth Stevens Publishing (2001), ISBN 9780836828566, page 47:

     From the mate’s boat they removed, at his direction, all whaling gear and craft except the oars and a single lance.

   • 1950, in Discovery Reports, Volume 26,^[2] Cambridge University Press, page 318:

     […] Temple, a negro of New Bedford, who made ‘whalecraft’, that is, was a blacksmith engaged in working from iron the special utensils or ‘craft’ of the whaling trade.

   • 1991, Joan Druett, Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920, University Press of New England (2001), ISBN 978-1-58465-159-8, page 55:

     The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above.

8. (nautical) 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.
9. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
10. (countable, plural: craft) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.
11. (countable, plural: crafts) A particular kind of skilled work.

    He learned his craft as an apprentice.

Definizione dizionario craft

	artigianato
	An occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity or skilled artistry.

abilità

aeroplano

arte

artigianale

astuzia

barca

bastimento

creare un’opera d’arte

imbarcazione

inganno

maestria

mestiere

natante

nave

naviglio

Altri significati:

make by hand

shrewdness

(uncountable) Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.

(nautical, whaling) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc.

(countable, plural: crafts ) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

(uncountable) Ability; dexterity; skill, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs; adroitness; practical cunning.

(nautical) 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.

people who perform a particular kind of skilled work

(obsolete) Strength; power; might.

skill in an occupation

(nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.

The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

To make by hand and with much skill.

skilled practice

To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman): "state crafting

(obsolete) A device; a means; an art; art in general.

vehicle designed for navigation

The members of a trade collectively; guild.

(countable, plural: crafts ) A particular kind of skilled work.

(countable, plural: craft ) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.