The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word URN
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result URN
- Sound of rake in large pot
- For audience, bring in vessel
- What may be kept by mourner?
- Some upturned vessel
- Vase included in furnishings
- Be paid, reportedly, for pot
- Large vessel initially unpopular with sailors
- Rook stuck in a French vase
- Uniform used on Royal Navy vessel
- Ornamental vessel erected near university
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What does URN mean?
URN noun- A vase with a footed base.
- A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
- A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
- Any place of burial; the grave.
- A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
- A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
- To place in an urn.