craft2 (kraft)

A Scotch form of croft. craft-guildt (kraft'gild), n. A guild formed by the members of a craft; a trade-union. The principal object of the Craft - Gilds was to secure their members in the independent, unimpaired, and regular earning of their daily bread by means of their craft. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), Int., p. cxxv. Holland; pyramidal yews, treillages, and square cradle- craftily (kraf'ti-li), adv . [ craftily , craft walks with windows clipped in them. Walpole , Letters (1763), II. 451. cradling (krā'dling), n . [Verbal n. of cradle , v.] 1. The act of rocking in a cradle; hence, nurture in infancy; the period of infancy. From his cradling Begin his service's first reckoning. Otia Sacra (1648), р. 33. ili, -lik, -liche, etc. (also craftly, Cranes and curlues craftyly rosted. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 196. To-morow I muste to Kyrkesley, Craftely to be leten blode. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 123). 2. In carp.: ( a ) Timber framing for sustain- 2. With cunning; artfully; cunningly; wilily. ing the laths and plaster of a vaulted ceiling. (b) The framework to which the entablature of a wooden shop-front is attached.-3. In cooper age, the cutting of a cask in two lengthwise, so as to enable it to pa through a narrow place, the pieces being afterward united.