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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 360 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRAFT (a word See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages for strength, or See also:power; cf. Ger. Kraft)  , a word confined in See also:English only, of the See also:Teutonic See also:languages in which it occurs, to intellectual See also:power, and used as a synonym of " See also:art." It then means skill or ingenuity, especially in the See also:manual arts, hence its use in the expression " Arts and Crafts " (q.v.), and it is 'thus applied to the See also:trade or profession in which such skill is displayed, to an association of workmen of a particular trade, a trade gild, and in particular to Freemasons, " the See also:craft "; the word appears also in words such as " handicraft " or " craftsman." Skill applied to outwit or deceive gives the See also:common sense of cunning or trickery, and it is this meaning which is implied in such combined words as "priestcraft," "See also:witchcraft" and the like . A more particular use of the word is in the nautical sense of vessels of transport by See also:water; this is probably a colloquially shortened See also:form either of " vessels of a fisherman's, lighterman's &c., craft," i.e . " art," or of " vessels of a heavier or lighter craft," i.e. See also:burden or capacity; in both cases the , qualifying words are dropped and the word comes to be used of vessels in See also:general .

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