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Definition of Small crafts
Small crafts Craft Craft (kr[.a]ft), n. [AS. cr[ae]ft strength, skill, art,
cunning; akin to OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft strength, D.
kracht, Icel. kraptr; perh. originally, a drawing together,
stretching, from the root of E. cramp.]
1. Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment;
hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a
trade.
Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
--Acts xix.
25.
A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill
or craft of making. --B. Jonson.
Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and
nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in
repute. --Longfellow.
3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild;
as, the craft of ironmongers.
The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds
to the new craft guilds. --J. R. Green.
4. 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.
You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft.
--Hobbes.
The chief priets and the scribes sought how they
might take him by craft, and put him to death.
--Mark xiv. 1.
5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used
in a collective sense.
The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving
over the lake. --Prof.
Wilson.
Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.
Small craft 4. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short;
as, after a small space. --Shak.
5. Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud. ``A still,
small voice.' --1 Kings xix. 12.
Great and small,of all ranks or degrees; -- used especially
of persons. ``His quests, great and small.' --Chaucer.
Small arms, muskets, rifles, pistols, etc., in distinction
from cannon.
Small beer. See under Beer.
Small coal.
(a) Little coals of wood formerly used to light fires.
--Gay.
(b) Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the
coarser parts by screening.
Small craft (Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a
small size.
Small fruits. See under Fruit.
Small hand, a certain size of paper. See under Paper.
Small hours. See under Hour.
Small letter. (Print.), a lower-case letter. See
Lower-case, and Capital letter, under Capital, a.
Small piece, a Scotch coin worth about 21/4d. sterling, or
about 41/2cents.
Small register. See the Note under 1st Register, 7.
Small stuff (Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest
kinds of rope. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
Small talk, light or trifling conversation; chitchat.
Small wares (Com.), various small textile articles, as
tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. --M`Culloch.
