Ship five initial pieces of extra spicy salami: eat lots (6)
I believe the answer is:
vessel
'ship' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'five initial pieces of extra spicy salami eat lots' is the wordplay.
'five initial' becomes 'v' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pieces of' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letters of 'extra spicy salami eat lots' is 'essel'.
'v'+'essel'='VESSEL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for vessel that I've seen before include "Large boat; container" , "A ship, a cup" , "Watercraft or water container" , "Boat or bottle, say" , "A ship or kitchen utensil" .)