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small-craft
[See craft n. 9 a.]
In attrib. use, as small-craft man, small-craft vessel, etc. Also transf.
1693Dryden, etc. Juvenal iii. (1697) 51 He..whom t'other Day A small-craft Vessel hither did convey. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 97 We essay-writers are of the small⁓craft or galley-kind. 1832Carlyle Remin. (1881) i. 33 On board some small-craft man of war. 1856Olmsted Slave States 143 Captain Jerry had the habit, which small-craft men are apt to get, of consulting aloud with himself. |