Vessel touring lake with minute tiller? (9)
I believe the answer is:
ploughman
'tiller?' is the definition.
(someone who tills on a farm)
'vessel touring lake with minute' is the wordplay.
'vessel' becomes 'pan' (vessel or container for cooking).
'touring' means one lot of letters goes inside another (touring can mean going round).
'lake with' becomes 'lough' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'minute' becomes 'm' (abbreviation).
'lough'+'m'='loughm'
'pan' placed around 'loughm' is 'PLOUGHMAN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ploughman that I've seen before include "possibly, in the farm" , "Agricultural worker (having lunch?)" , "His groundbreaking work" , "Tiller of soil" , "One with shares in Labour" .)