Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.

* 1719 ,

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.

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

A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

* Bible, Acts ix. 15

He is a chosen vessel unto me.

* Milton

[The serpent] fit vessel , fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.

* Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:

I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.

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

Blood or lymph vessels''' in humans, xylem or phloem '''vessels in plants .

Noun

(en noun)

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

1870' ''By and by the '''steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.'' — Mark Twain, ''Life on the Mississippi , Chapter 3.