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vessel
Part of speech: NounA hollow receptacle or container, usually for liquids, as a barrel, bottle, cup, etc.; a tube or canal in the body through which a fluid passes or in which it is secreted; as, a blood vessel, etc.; any boat larger than a rowboat; a ship.
Usage examples "vessel":- You make up your mind to take that vessel; give your orders; and we'll do it. - "The Black Bar", George Manville Fenn.
- Might it not have been stolen before the vessel sank? - "Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930", Various.
- But if Garnesk were not very quick about it I should have burst a blood- vessel in my brain before he reached me. - "The Mystery of the Green Ray", William Le Queux.