Undercraft
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Undercraft is a noun meaning An apprentice or journeyman.
Meaning
An apprentice or journeyman.
More Meanings
- To make with insufficient craftsmanship.
- Beneath a craft (water, air, or space vehicle).
- (obsolete) A sly trick, or subterfuge in general.
- (archaic) Witchcraft or sorcery.
- (obsolete) To outwit; to outmaneuver.
- (dated) A submarine.
- (historical) An underground crypt.
Example Sentences
Under-craft, witchcraft, call it what you will, but it is indeed poisonous.
Meredith's high-toned verbosities often draw strength from a secret affiliation with the "undercraft" of the underclasses, his humor sociolectic as well as lexical.
He arrives at Ambrose's home in Tarceny and lets loose the “Heron Man,” Ambrose's uncle, who, for three hundred years, has used “undercraft” to maintain his evil power.
Such hordyng up of worldly wealth, such keeping much in store. . .Such falshed undercraft, and such unstedfast wayes, Was never sene within men's hartes, as is found nowadayes.
Word Forms
- undercrafts
- under-craft
- undercrafting
- undercrafted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include artifice, underdealing, craft, subtility, subterfuge, cunning.
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