craft – English noun declension

English noun forms of craft

Noun: craft
Singularcraft
Pluralcraft; crafts

Sample Sentences

  • By the craft of nature. [1526, William Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection:]
  • The Cyclôpes were Brontês, Steropês, and Argês,—formidable persons, equally distinguished for strength and for manual craft […] [1846, George Grote, A history of Greece:]
  • England should have had enough against a very ordinary Russia to complete the job but Rooney's removal robbed them of his craft and guidance and now increases the pressure on Thursday's meeting with Wales in Lens. [2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport:]
  • […]and the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 14:1:]
  • […] you have that Crooked Wisdome, which is called Craft […] [1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC:]
  • We have not the strength with which to fight this man; we must dissimulate, and win, if win we can, by craft. [1904, Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:]
  • [Canton] has a large export trade in hand-made crafts, ivory and furniture. [1911 January 26, Timberman:]
  • For your entente I shall a craft devise […] That ye shall haue your purpose euery dele. [c. 1440, Generydes. A royal historie of the excellent knight Generides:]
  • […] Þe seuen craftes all he can […] [a. 1325, Cursor Mundi, page 272:]
  • The craft of writing plays.
  • A poem […] is the work of the poet; the end and fruit of his labour and study. Poesy is his skill or craft of making; the very fiction itself, the reason or form of the work. [1640, Ben Jonson, Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter, page 213:]
  • It is counted […] good workmanship in a Joyner, to have the craft of bearing his hand so curiously even, the whole length of a long Board. [1678, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises, or The doctrine of handy-works:]
  • The carpenter's craft.
  • He learned his craft as an apprentice.
  • […] For since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, / Has the craft of the smith been held in repute by the people. [1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, page 281:]
  • Fond as William was of the craft of the woods, he was the least likely of all men to let his sport stand in the way of his interest. [1871, Edward Augustus Freeman, The history of the Norman conquest, page 250:]
  • The great preachers were masters of their craft. [1991, James Munson, The Nonconformists: In Search of a Lost Culture, page 113:]
  • This was billed as the battle between Kane and his Poland opposite number Lewandowski but this was a game where it was possible to simply enjoy two masters of their craft at work. [2021 September 8, Phil McNulty, “Poland 1-1 England”, in BBC Sport:]
  • She represented the craft of brewers.
  • Thanks to British designer Ross Kemp, the world has been graced with a solar-powered watercraft that costs just a third of the price of your average powered water craft. [2013 August 6, Monique Rivilland, “This ski and surf combo could save your life”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2015:]
  • Quite near could also be seen several ancient wooden warships, and always a variety of craft slipping up and down the tideway. [1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 705:]
  • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. [1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
  • And whereas the continual Interruption of the Courſe and Paſſage of the Fiſh up the Rivers, by the daily drawing of Seins and other Fiſh-Craft, tends to prevent their Increaſe,[…] [a. 1784, T. Green, “An Act for encouraging and regulating Fiſheries”, in Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America, page 79:]
  • The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship. [1869 April 27, C. M. Scammon, “On the Cetaceans of the Western Coast of North America”, in Edward D. Cope, editor, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, volume 21, page 46:]
  • From the mate’s boat they removed, at his direction, all whaling gear and craft except the oars and a single lance. [a. 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, “A Boy Who Went Whaling”, in The Highest Hit: and Other Selections by Newbery Authors, Gareth Stevens Publishing, published 2001, →ISBN, page 47:]
  • […]Temple, a negro of New Bedford, who made ‘whalecraft’, that is, was a blacksmith engaged in working from iron the special utensils or ‘craft’ of the whaling trade. [1950, Discovery Reports, volume 26, Cambridge University Press, page 318:]
  • The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above. [1991, Joan Druett, Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920, University Press of New England, published 2001, →ISBN, page 55:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *krafjaną
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
4. Proto-Germanic *-þuz
5. Proto-Germanic *kraftuz
6. Proto-West Germanic *kraftu
7. Old English cræft
8. Middle English craft
9. English craft
10. Inherited from Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
11. Cognate with Dutch kracht (“strength, power, force”), German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kraft (“strength, power, force”), Faroese and Icelandic kraftur (“strength”). See: Middle English Nouns 'craft', Middle English Nouns 'craft', Old English Nouns 'cræft', Dutch Nouns 'kracht', German Nouns 'Kraft'.

Verbs referencing "craft"

German Nouns Kraft, Danish Nouns kraft, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kraft.