Other forms: crafts, crafted, crafting
To craft is to make something skilfully by hand. Craft a chair, carefully crafted, craft a reply.
The verb is now used of speeches and arguments as often as of objects, and there it can sound like advertising. As a noun a craft is a trade and also a boat or aircraft, where the plural stays craft. The Old English craeft meant strength or skill.
1verbcraftTo make something skilfully by hand.
“Each chair is carefully crafted from local oak in a small workshop.”
2nounboatA boat or aircraft.
“Small craft were warned to stay in the harbour because of the storm.”
craft is a making, or a vessel.
Old English craeft means strength or skill, from a Germanic root meaning power. German Kraft still means force.
Middle English
craft
English, today
craft
From Middle English craft. 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. 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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA