资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

   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 priets 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.