Clues for the word "VESSEL"
We've had 57 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 80 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 21, 2026.
Definition of vessel
- n. - A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
- n. - A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.
- n. - Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
- n. - Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
- n. - A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
- v. t. - To put into a vessel.
Referring Clues
- Craft
- Frigate or ferry
- Titanic, for one
- Ship, for one
- Captain's craft
- Tub or tug
- Yacht, for one
- Skiff, for one
- Container or craft
- Oiler or liner
- Clipper or cutter
- Ship or boat
- Trawler or tanker
- Ship
- Ship, e.g.
- Watercraft
- Bowl or ship
- Jug or tug
- Jug or cup
- Container
- Container for liquids
- Bowl or boat
- Any watercraft
- Yacht or schooner
- Boat
- Pitcher, for one
- Artery, e.g.
- Floating craft
- Frigate or cruiser
- Boat or plane
- Sailing ship
- Nine Inch Nails song about a craft?
- Receptacle - ship
- What might hold, or float on, water?
- Ship less able to return on a day of victory
- Container - boat
- After half five turning back without the boat?
- Container - ship
- Craft holder (Roman numerals to be included)
- A dish which may contain blood
- Behaves selfishly, keeping the bowl
- It holds personalities with first half-second
- Not so much raised to support very English craft
- Craft holder
- Schooner as both glass and ship?
- Ship in a bottle, perhaps?
- Vein or artery
- Boat returning from a fruitless event
- Schooner, in more ways than one
- Container ship?
- Something in water or holding water
- Pot or yacht
- Ship less back to the 'not nice' part of Venice
- Steamship, for example
- Circulates blood
- In which elves go sailing around Spithead?
- Boat or gravy boat
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 21, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 29, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 19, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 16, 2024
- Mirror Mini - December 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 23, 2024
- LA Times - May 28, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 19, 2024
- LA Times - December 14, 2023
- Mirror Mini - December 03, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 20, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 15, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - May 04, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 06, 2023
- LA Times - February 27, 2023
- Mirror Mini - December 03, 2022
- USA Today - August 15, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - June 27, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 22, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - January 19, 2018
- Universal - December 02, 2017
- USA Today - September 14, 2017
- Guardian Quick - August 05, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - July 30, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - May 27, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - May 04, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 17, 2017
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