gentle craft

Definitions

1. 1

   Shoemaking or cobbling

   Shoemaking or cobbling; the trade of a shoemaker or cobbler.

   • Here Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet, laureate of the gentle craft, Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters, in huge folios sang and laughed.
2. 2

   Fishing

   Fishing; angling.

   • Another fisherman was picked up here—and that so silently, that if Young Jerry had been superstitious, he might have supposed the second follower of the gentle craft to have, all of a sudden, split himself into two.
   • [O]n Sundays he went fishing, being devoted to the gentle craft.
   • Dangerfield was of good Colonel Venables' mind, that 'tis well in the lover of the gentle craft to associate himself with some honest, expert angler, who will freely and candidly communicate his skill unto him.

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