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vessel 1. a passenger or freight-carrying ship, boat, etc. 2. an aircraft, esp an airship 3. Anatomy a tubular structure that transports such body fluids as blood and lymph 4. Botany a tubular element of xylem tissue consisting of a row of cells in which the connecting cell walls have broken down vessel [′ves·əl] (botany) A water-conducting tube or duct in the xylem. (engineering) A container or structural envelope in which materials are processed, treated, or stored; for example, pressure vessels, reactor vessels, agitator vessels, and storage vessels (tanks). (naval architecture) Any craft that can carry people or cargo over the surface of the water. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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next season I'll have the vessel fitted with engines. With it ransom yourself and your friends, and let one of you go to the land of the Christians, and there buy a vessel and come back for the others; and he will find me in my father's garden, which is at the Babazon gate near the seashore, where I shall be all this summer with my father and my servants. But though it was now an old story, and the most aged people had almost forgotten that such a vessel had been wrecked, William Phips resolved that the sunken treasure should again be brought to light. |
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