craft

Meanings

Noun

• Strength; power; might; force .
• Intellectual power; skill; art.
• A work or product of art .
• A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
• Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
• Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
• 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 .
• 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’ .
• A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
• Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

Verb

• To make by hand and with much skill.
• To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
• To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

Origin

• From Middle English craft, from Old English cræft, from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz, further origin obscure.
• Cognate with German Kraft