Craft Small Traditional Skill Noun Bre Krɑːft Kræft

• traditional crafts like basket-weaving
• a craft fair/workshop
• craft, design and technology (= a subject in some british schools)
• chefs who learned their craft in top hotels

craft

1. an activity involving a special skill at making things with your hands
• see also arts and crafts
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/arts-and-crafts
• traditional crafts like basket-weaving
• a craft fair/workshop
• Craft, Design and Technology (= a subject in some British schools)
2. all the skills needed for a particular activity
• chefs who learned their craft in top hotels
• the writer’s craft
3. skill in making people believe what you want them to believe
• He knew how to win by craft and diplomacy what he could not gain by force.
4. a boat or ship
• Hundreds of small craft bobbed around the liner as it steamed into the harbour.
• a landing/pleasure craft
5. an aircraft or spacecraft

Extra Examples

• Sheep shearing is a highly skilled craft.
• Subjects taught include art and craft, drama, and languages.
• The gallery has major exhibitions of arts and crafts.
• The men practised various traditional crafts, such as carving toys out of bone.
• a carpenter who is a real master of his craft
• comedians plying their craft for an agency
• Hundreds of small craft bobbed around the ship as it steamed into the harbour.
• a landing/pleasure craft

Word Origin

• Old English cræft ‘strength, skill’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kracht, German Kraft, and Swedish kraft ‘strength’. Sense (4), originally in the expression small craft ‘small trading vessels’, may be elliptical, referring to vessels requiring a small amount of “craft” or skill to handle, as opposed to large ocean-going ships.