A thing that holds, and a thing that carries. The same word for the cup and the ship - and for a living body understood as either.
Old French vaissel, from Latin vascellum, a diminutive of vas (a container), named a thing that holds and, extended to ships and bodies, a thing that carries.
The Hearth realm's own route group, at /vessel, and the category this atom itself is filed under. The same word holds the cup, the ship, and a living body understood as either one, carried here into the room where a dweller's own record is kept.