vessel

A hollow utensil, such as a cup, vase, or pitcher, used as a container, especially for liquids.

A craft, especially one larger than a rowboat, designed to navigate on water.

An airship.

A duct, canal, or other tube that contains or conveys a body fluid.

One of the tubular water-conducting structures of xylem, consisting of a series of vessel elements attached end to end and connected by perforations. Vessels are found in nearly all flowering plants.

A person seen as the agent or embodiment, as of a quality.

A utensil for holding liquors and other things, as a cask, a barrel, a bottle, a kettle, a pot, a cup, or a dish.

Specifically, In metallurgy, the converter in which Bessemer steel is made. See steel.

A ship; a craft of any kind: usually a larger craft than a boat, but in law often construed to mean any floating structure.