vessel

1. 1

   A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.; Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.

   • But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.
   • Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, […] naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.
2. 2

   A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.; A craft designed for transportation through air or space.

   • Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations.
3. 3

   Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.dialectalobsoleteuncountable

   • All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis.
4. 4

   A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.

5. 5

   A person as a container of qualities or feelings.figuratively

   • A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.
6. 6

   A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.

   • Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.

syn. vessel

1. 1

   To put into a vessel.transitive

   • [Samuel 'Sam' Oliver:] Alright (or: All right), so the Devil didn't say that the winner was the one who vesseled (or: vesselled) him, just the one who sends him back to hell.