craftful

adj, noun — 3 senses

craftful

adj

Etymology From craft + -ful.

1

Crafty; full of tricks.

2

Employing crafting techniques.

Derived terms
craftfully, craftfulness

craftful

noun

Etymology From craft + -ful.

1

A quantity that a craft (any sense) contains.

  • This was not the time or place either for trade or for paying scot, and who knew what a craftful of strangers wanted?2013, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings:
  • If a craftful of human beings could somehow be encoded into tachyonic form and then reconstituted as normal matter somewhere else,its translation from one side of the Universe to the other could take no time at all—even better, since theory predicted that tachyons also travelled backwards in time, it could arrive at its destination centuries before its departure.2014, John Grant, Strider's Galaxy:
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  • Seven to 12-year-olds are invited on her journey through music, with the London Symphony Orchestra playing extracts along the way from Beethoven, Shostakovich and a whole craftful of other composers.2018 July 6, Claudia Pritchard, “Voyager, London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican”, in Culture Whisper:

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