noun

1. a special skill, art, or dexterity
2. an occupation or avocation requiring special skills, especially manual ones, including carpentry, sewing, pottery, etc.
3. the members of a skilled trade
4. skill in deceiving or underhanded planning; guile; slyness
5. pl. craft

   Etymology: prob. < phr. vessels of small craft, lit. of small power

   a boat, ship, or aircraft

Etymology: ME < OE cræft, strength, power; akin to Ger kraft, strength, force (sense “skill” only in E) < IE *grep- < base *ger-, to twist, turn (see cradle): basic sense “cramping of muscles during exertion of strength”

transitive verb