craft

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
craft/krɑːft/

▶noun

• 1 an activity involving skill in making things by hand.

  ■ (crafts) things made by hand.

  ■ skill in carrying out one's work.

  ■ the members of a skilled profession.

• 2 cunning.

• 3 (pl. same) a boat or ship.

  ■ an aircraft or spaceship.

▶verb exercise skill in making (something).

– derivatives
crafter noun,
craftwork noun,
craftworker noun.

– origin OE cræft ‘strength, skill’, of Gmc origin; sense 3 of the noun perh. with ref. to vessels requiring skill to handle.