(collective or plural) Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .
(countable) 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’ .
(countable, fishing) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .
(countable, obsolete in the general sense) A work or product of art .
(countable, obsolete) A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
(countable, obsolete) Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
(countable, plural crafts) 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 .
(figurative) A woman.
(nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.
(nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
(obsolete) Occult art, magic .
(uncountable) Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
(uncountable, obsolete) Strength; power; might; force .
Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .
verb
(video games) To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.
To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
To make by hand and with much skill.
croft
croft
noun
(archaic) A carafe.
A cave or cavern.
An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
verb
(intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
(transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
