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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Craft \Craft\ (kr[.a]ft), n. [AS. cr[ae]ft strength, skill, art, cunning; akin to OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft strength, D. kracht, Icel. kraptr; perh. originally, a drawing together, stretching, from the root of E. cramp.] 1. Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade. [1913 Webster] Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. --Acts xix. 25. [1913 Webster] A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers. [1913 Webster] The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. --Hobbes. [1913 Webster] The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. --Mark xiv. 1. [1913 Webster] 5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense. [1913 Webster] The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster] {Small crafts}, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Craft \Craft\, v. t. To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] You have crafted fair. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: craft n 1: the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice" [syn: {trade}, {craft}] 2: a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space 3: people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade" [syn: {craft}, {trade}] 4: skill in an occupation or trade [syn: {craft}, {craftsmanship}, {workmanship}] 5: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [syn: {craft}, {craftiness}, {cunning}, {foxiness}, {guile}, {slyness}, {wiliness}] v 1: make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a complicated tool" From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: CRAFT Cray Research Adaptive FORTRAN (Cray, MPP, FORTRAN)