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Craft (A)

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A trade (Anglo-Saxon, crœft). A craftsman is a mechanic. A handicraft is manual skill, i.e. mechanical skill. And leechcraft is skill in medicine. (Anglo-Saxon lœce-crœft; lœce, a doctor.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Crack
Crack-brained
Crack a Bottle
Crack a Crib (To)
Crack Up a Person (To)
Cracked
Cracked Pipkins
Cracker
Cracknells (from the French craquelin)
Cradle-land
Craft (A)
Craft (A)
Craft
Craigmillar Castle
Crakys of War
Cram
Crambe bis Cocta [“cabbage boiled twice”]
Crambo
Crampart (King)
Cramp-ring
Crane