Rear of bowsprit attached to crude vessel (6)
I believe the answer is:
trough
'vessel' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'rear of bowsprit attached to crude' is the wordplay.
'rear of' says to take the final letters.
'attached to' says to put letters next to each other.
'crude' becomes 'rough' ('rough' can be similar in meaning to 'crude').
The final letter of 'bowsprit' is 't'.
't'+'rough'='TROUGH'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for trough that I've seen before include "Gutter; depression" , "Container for cattle-feed" , "Animal drinking container" , "period when little is achieved" , "Pig swill container" .)