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vessel

noun as in ship

noun as in container, bowl

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In CDC-speak, the problem is filed under the vessel sanitation program (VSP).

It turns out that a rising tide lifts all boats, including the rather leaky vessel carrying Kansas Republicans.

The tests in the study assumed that the ship would displace about 9690-tons; the Zumwalt is a 15,500-ton vessel.

Local mechanics pitched in to help mend the craft, but weeks into setting off the repairs wore thin and the vessel sprung a leak.

Within a matter of hours, the vessel that Mooney had crafted began to sink.

This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.

The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.

The vessel escaped miraculously, with sails torn by shots from three Dutch vessels, which they took for one of their own.

At one fell swoop on the field of Jena, the famed military monarchy of the great Frederick fell in pieces like a potter's vessel.

The American losses were seven men wounded, none killed, and only slight damage to one vessel.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vessel, such as: barge, boat, craft, liner, ocean liner, and tanker.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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