drinking vessel

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   a vessel intended for drinking

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Questions about drinking vessel

What does drinking vessel mean?

drinking vessel means "a vessel intended for drinking".

Is drinking vessel a common word?

drinking vessel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.