Definition of Craft

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Definition of Craft

Craft

Strength; might; secret power.

Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.

Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.

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.

A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.

To play tricks; to practice artifice.

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Craft Quotations

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
Josef Albers

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
Richard Branson

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
Honore de Balzac

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra Pound

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
Snoop Dogg

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
Elton John

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
Ben Harper

Craft Translations

craft in German is Handwerk, Fahrzeug
craft in Latin is professio
craft in Spanish is destreza
craft in Swedish is hantverk, fartyg, flygplan

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