an activity or trade requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill
a trade or profession
(often in combination) skill in planning, making, or executing something; dexterity
stagecraft
(pl craft or crafts) a boat, aircraft, or spacecraft
(treated as sing. or pl) the members of a trade or trade association
(pl craft or crafts)
a boat
an aircraft
a spacecraft
skill in deceiving to gain an end
from Old English cræft strength, skill. The basic meaning of craft, common to most Germanic languages, is ‘strength’. In English it also acquired, as early as the ninth cent., the sense ‘skill, cleverness’. In reference to manual dexterity, this sense has retained a positive force; but in reference to mental agility, which may be viewed with suspicion or envy, it gradually became derogatory and by the 13th cent. often signified guile or fraud. The derivative adjective crafty developed in the same way; today it is used only in a negative sense