Meaning of gentle craft | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Shoemaking or cobbling; the trade of a shoemaker or cobbler.
   archaic, no-plural
2. Fishing; angling.
   archaic, no-plural

Examples

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

“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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