Mother's brought up one vessel after another (6)
I believe the answer is:
sampan
'mother's brought up one vessel after another' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'mother's brought up one vessel after' is the wordplay.
'mother's' becomes 'ma's' (Ma is another word for mother or mum).
'brought up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (in a down clue, letters go up).
'one vessel' becomes 'pan' (vessel or container for cooking).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'mas' written backwards gives 'sam'.
'sam'+'pan'='SAMPAN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sampan that I've seen before include "East Asian boat" , "Boat in Far East" , "Small 10 boat" , "Far Eastern boat" , "Small Asian rowing boat" .)