Word Finder - craft

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Strength; power; might; force .

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Intellectual power; skill; art.

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(obsolete in the general sense) A work or product of art .

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A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .

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Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .

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Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .

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The craft of writing plays.

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• craftsmanship
• workmanship

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(plural crafts) A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .

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He learned his craft as an apprentice.

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• art
• business
• handicraft
• profession
• trade

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A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .

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She represented the craft of brewers.

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

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

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To make by hand and with much skill.

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To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).

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state crafting; the process of crafting global policing

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To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

The craft door opened, and a figure strode out.

Kiera had bathed in the bathroom in the back of the craft, but it was too small to have a clothing unit.

He altered the course of his tiny craft for Qatwal.

Small sailing craft navigate upwards as far as Samarra; above this all navigation is downward, and by raft.

She has practised no single constructive craft which would call for the use of her hands.

If he failed to teach his son the craft, that son could prosecute him and get the contract annulled.

In 1904, exclusive of coasters and small craft trading with north-west Africa, 562 ships of 604,208 tons entered the port of Cartagena, 259 being British and 150 Spanish; while 90 vessels were accommodated at Porman.

She trailed instead, eyes on the much smaller craft hovering near the tree.

There is also some activity in the building of small craft.

He preferred land wars to the space wars and had been returning to the main craft when the ambush occurred.

Farnell refers to the ancient association between the healing craft and the singing of spells, and says that it is impossible to decide which is the original sense.

Of the rise of the craft gilds in Utrecht there is no record.

The host of small craft dispersed for their various tasks.

He therefore employed the best available art and skill in improving the craft of glass-cutting.

The Connecticut is the most considerable stream, and is navigable by small craft.

In all other cities of the Netherlands the craft gilds remained in humble subjection to a council co-opted from a limited number of wealthy patrician families.

In addition to this most delicate and rapid craft, he had his umiak or freight boat, sometimes called woman's boat.

Their craft would vie in form, in size, and seaworthiness with those of the North Pacific coast.

The sangada, with its platform and sail, belonging to the Brazilian coast, is spoken of as a good seaworthy craft.

The American craft was propelled by poling, paddling, rowing, and by rude sails of matting.

The second line of twenty galleys, under the command of Benedetto Giacaria (or Zaccharie), was placed so far behind the first that the Pisans could not see whether it was made up of war-vessels or of small craft meant to act as tenders to the others.

By the craft of Hera, his foe through life, his birth was delayed, and that of Eurystheus, son of Sthenelus of Argos, hastened, Zeus having in effect sworn that the elder of the two should rule the realm of Perseus.

He hoped for assistance from the friendly Nabataeans; but, as they owed everything to their position as middlemen for the South-Arabian trade, which a direct communication between Rome and the Sabaeans would have ruined, their viceroy Syllaeus, who did not dare openly to refuse help, sought to frustrate the emperor's scheme by craft.

The Russians again broke out northward; but some of the Japanese squadrons hung on to the remnant of the enemy's battle-fleet, and the others dealt with the numerous Russian vessels that were unable to keep up. Then Togo called off his ships, and gave the torpedo craft room and the night in which to act.

The anchorage is fairly protected from the sea, but the depth of water is only 3 to 4 fathoms. The channel between the island on Diu and the mainland is navigable only by fishing boats and small craft.

Since 1880 the increasing demands of medical knowledge have well-nigh revolutionized the craft in the home, the hospital and the workhouse.

No native craft of any kind was seen above Barraconda.

The navy, many of the officers of which are Danes and Norwegians, comprises a steel twin-screw cruiser of 2500 tons which serves as the royal yacht, four steel gunboats of between 500 and 700 tons all armed with modern quick-firing guns, two torpedo-boat destroyers and three torpedo boats, with other craft for river and coast work.

In these circumstances navigation is especially perilous for sailing craft.

Up to 1880 the railway mileage had increased to only 1,530; but during the next ten years it increased to 2,942, and railways were in considerable measure substituted for water craft.

On the other hand, principles are valueless without law and order; and Burghley's craft and subtlety prepared a security in which principles might find some scope.

The Rio Grande is navigable for small vessels up to Matamoros (31 m.), and for smaller craft 65 m.

There is no evidence to show that any societies during the first three centuries consisted solely of workers at a single craft.

But there can be little doubt that the later craft gilds were a development, through the industrial gilds of the provincial towns, of one of the most ancient features of Roman life.

Local products, including kat, firewood, live animals, ghi, dates, honey, wax, gums and sesame oil, to the value of about £125,000, were exported in 1919-20.1,065 steam vessels of aggregate tonnage 2,736,391 and sailing craft of tonnage 365,569 cleared in the year ending March 1919.

Sir William Phips sailed from Boston in 1690, conquered Acadia, now Nova Scotia, and then hazarded the greater task of leading a fleet up the St Lawrence against Quebec. On the 16th of October 1690 thirty-four English ships, some of them only fishing craft, appeared in its basin and demanded the surrender of the town.

The tidal currents, or races, or roost (as some of them are called locally, from the Icelandic) off many of the isles run with enormous velocity, and whirlpools are of frequent occurrence, and strong enough at times to prove a source of danger to small craft.

The harbour of Grado is the only one accessible to the larger kind of coasting craft.

Ferryboats cross the bay to Nictheroy at intervals of 20 minutes, and smaller craft provide communication with the islands of Gobernador and Paqueta.

The high carved prow and stern give the craft almost a crescent shape.

By the middle of April two warships, twentythree galleys, four fireships and numerous smaller craft were safely launched.

Perez says that the Sarare branch of the Apure has formed a gigantic dam across its own course by prodigious quantities of trees, brush, vines and roots, and thus, impounding its own waters, has cut a new channel to the southward across the lowlands and joined the Arauca, from which the Sarare may be reached in small craft and ascended to the vicinity of Pamplona.

It occupies, however, but a few small steam craft.

There the German torpedo craft and German submarines lay in a safe base only some 60 m.

The Salween throughout Karen-ni is navigated by large native craft.

Hitherto, according to all evidence, she had shown herself on all occasions, as on all subsequent occasions she indisputably showed herself, the most fearless, the most keen-sighted, the most ready-witted, the most high-gifted and high-spirited of women; gallant and generous, skilful and practical, never to be cowed by fortune, never to be cajoled by craft; neither more unselfish in her ends nor more unscrupulous in her practice than might have been expected from her training and her creed.

The medieval constitution of Groningen, unlike that of Utrecht, was aristocratic. Merchant gild there was none; and the craft gilds were without direct influence on the city government, which held them in subjection.

Those of the eastern slope, on the other hand, such as the Musi, Jambi, Indragiri, Kampar, Siak, Rokan, Panei, Bila and Asahan, are longer, and with many of their affluents are navigable in their middle and lower courses over considerable stretches for craft drawing 6 to 10 ft.

The western division consists of low fen or clay soil and presents a monotonous expanse of rich meadow-land, carefully drained in regular lines of canals bordered by stunted willows, and dotted over with windmills, the sails of canal craft and the clumps of elm and poplar which surround each isolated farm-house.

In the charter of 1254, while there is mention of a communitas capable of making a compact with the bishop, there is nothing said of any trade or craft gilds.