craftful

English

Etymology 1

From craft +‎ -ful.

Adjective

craftful (comparative more craftful, superlative most craftful)

1. Crafty; full of tricks.
2. Employing crafting techniques.

Derived terms

• craftfully

 

Etymology 2

From craft +‎ -ful.

Noun

craftful (plural craftfuls)

1. A quantity that a craft (any sense) contains.
   • 2013, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings:

     This was not the time or place either for trade or for paying scot, and who knew what a craftful of strangers wanted?

   • 2014, John Grant, Strider's Galaxy:

     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.

   • 2018 July 6, Claudia Pritchard, “Voyager, London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican”, in Culture Whisper:

     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.