vessel.

Indians of the mission gazed on the floating fort, for so they called the vessel.

France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Francis Parkman 1858

Changing the world and America by using Sen. Barack Obama as his main vessel.

Carville: Obama likely to win nomination 2008

Twemlow going on to reply, she rests her eyes again, knowing her ears to be quite enough for the contents of so weak a vessel.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

The First Lord thereupon, somewhat reluctantly as it seemed to me, intimated that in view of the position taken up by his principal expert adviser, he had no option but to recall the vessel.

Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893

Twemlow going on to reply, she rests her eyes again, knowing her ears to be quite enough for the contents of so weak a vessel.

Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

However, in cases involving floating platforms, dredges, and pile drivers, careful consideration must be given to whether they will be defined as vessel.

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Maritime law was the basis for Exxon's dodging most of its liability for the Valdez oil spill, and now Transocean plans to use the same standards -- written for merchant ships but now being applied to enormous oil platforms on the reasoning that, if it floats, it must be a "vessel."

Carl Pope: Big Oil Keeps Its Bailout -- For Now 2010

We have to protect our fishing vessels, or any kind of vessel.

Interviewed on Emigration, U.S. 1994

Vertical piers cradling a very different kind of vessel.

With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

Vertical piers cradling a very different kind of vessel.

With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977