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craft

  [kraft, krahft] noun, plural crafts or, for 5, 8, craft, verb
Use crafted in a Sentence
–noun
1. an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, esp. manual skill: the craft of a mason.
2. skill; dexterity: The silversmith worked with great craft.
3. skill or ability used for bad purposes; cunning; deceit; guile.
4. the members of a trade or profession collectively; a guild.
5. a ship or other vessel.
6. a number of ships or other vessels taken as a whole: The craft were warned of possible heavy squalls.
7. aircraft collectively.
8. a single aircraft.
–verb (used with object)
9. to make or manufacture (an object, objects, product, etc.) with skill and careful attention to detail.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE cræft strength, skill; c. G Kraft, D kracht, ON kraptr

Related forms:
craftless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. metier. 2. talent, ability. 3. craftiness, shrewdness, deceitfulness, deception. See cunning.
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craft   (krāft)   
n.  

  1. Skill in doing or making something, as in the arts; proficiency. See Synonyms at art1.

  2. Skill in evasion or deception; guile.

    1. An occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity or skilled artistry.

    2. The membership of such an occupation or trade; guild.

  4. pl. craft A boat, ship, or aircraft.

tr.v.   craft·ed, craft·ing, crafts

  1. To make by hand.

  2. Usage Problem To make or construct (something) in a manner suggesting great care or ingenuity: "It was not the Chamber of Commerce that crafted the public policies that have resulted in a $26 billion annual subvention to the farmers" (William F. Buckley, Jr.)


[Middle English, from Old English cræft.]
craft'er n.
Usage Note: Craft has been used as a verb since the Old English period and was used in Middle English to refer specifically to the artful construction of a text or discourse. In recent years, crafted, the past participle of craft, has enjoyed a vogue as a participle referring to well-wrought writing. Craft is more acceptable when applied to literary works than to other sorts of writing, and more acceptable as a participle than as a verb. Seventy-three percent of the Usage Panel accepts the phrase beautifully crafted prose. By contrast, only 35 percent accept the sentence The planners crafted their proposal so as to anticipate the objections of local businesses.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
can't remember a fucking thing

and CRAFT
  1. phr. & comp. abb.
    a phrase said when one's memory fails. (Usually objectionable.) : Gee, I'm getting old. CRAFT. , What's your name, again? I can't remember a fucking thing!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

craft 
O.E. cræft "power, strength, might," from P.Gmc. *krab-/*kraf-. Sense shifted to "skill, art" (via a notion of "mental power"), which led to the n. meaning of "trade." Use for "small boat" is first recorded 1671, probably from some nautical sense of "vessels of small craft," referring either to the trade they did or the seamanship they required.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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