(n.) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
(n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.