craft

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Skill in doing or making something, as in the arts; proficiency. synonym: skill.
• noun Skill in evasion or deception; guile.
• noun An occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity or skilled artistry.
• noun The practitioners of such an occupation or trade considered as a group.
• noun A boat, ship, or aircraft.
• noun Items made by craftspeople.
• transitive verb To make or construct (something) with care or ingenuity.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To play tricks.
• To use skill upon; manipulate.
• Specifically, to build.
• noun A Scotch form of croft.
• noun Strength; power; might.
• noun Ability; dexterity; skill; especially, skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs; adroitness; practical cunning.
• noun Specifically, cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety.
• noun A device; a means; an art; art in general.
• noun A trade, occupation, or employment requiring the exercise of special skill or dexterity, especially of manual skill; a handicraft.
• noun The members of a trade, collectively; a guild.
• noun Nautical, a vessel; collectively, vessels of any kind.
• noun See the extract.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete Strength; might; secret power.
• noun Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
• noun Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild.
• noun 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.
• noun (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.
• noun small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.
• transitive verb obsolete To play tricks; to practice artifice.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete Strength; power; might.
• noun uncountable Ability; dexterity; skill, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs; adroitness; practical cunning.
• noun uncountable Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
• noun obsolete A device; a means; an art; art in general.
• noun countable The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
• noun The members of a trade collectively; guild.
• noun nautical Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc.
• noun nautical Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.
• noun nautical, British Royal Navy Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
• noun countable A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.
• noun countable A particular kind of skilled work.
• verb To make by hand and with much skill.
• verb To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman): "state crafting", "crafting global policing".

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb make by hand and with much skill
• noun the skilled practice of a practical occupation
• noun a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
• noun shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
• noun people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
• noun skill in an occupation or trade