You have crafted fair. --Shak.
2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment;
hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a
trade.
Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
--Acts xix.
25.
A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill
or craft of making. --B. Jonson.
Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and
nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in
repute. --Longfellow.
3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild;
as, the craft of ironmongers.
The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds
to the new craft guilds. --J. R. Green.
4. Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad
purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to
effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.
You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft.
--Hobbes.
The chief priets and the scribes sought how they
might take him by craft, and put him to death.
--Mark xiv. 1.
5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used
in a collective sense.
The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving
over the lake. --Prof.
Wilson.
{Small crafts}, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.