vessel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   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.

2. 2
   noun

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

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

3. 3
   noun

   A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

   A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   To put into a vessel.

   1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,” Our hony alſo is taken and reputed to be the beſt bycauſe it is harder, better wrought & clenlyer veſſelled vp, thẽ that which cõmeth from beyond the ſea, where they ſtampe and ſtraine their combes, Bées, & young Blow|inges altogither into the ſtuffe, as I haue béene informed.

6. 6
   noun

   a craft designed for water transportation

7. 7
   noun

   an object used as a container (especially for liquids)

8. 8
   noun

   a tube in which a body fluid circulates

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wāss Late Latin vās Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Italic *-elom Late Latin -ulum Late Latin -culum Late Latin vāsculum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Late Latin -lus Late Latin vāscellum Old French vaisselbor. Middle English vessel English vessel Inherited from Middle English vessel, vessell (“small container”); from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau and Catalan vaixell), from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vase, vessel”).