razee

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Definition of razee

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
    “an old line-of-battle ship, (21 years of age,) cut down to a razee”
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noun

  1. An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
    “an old line-of-battle ship, (21 years of age,) cut down to a razee”

verb

  1. (transitive)To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
  2. (figuratively, transitive)To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
    “to razee a book, or an article”
    “"Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"”

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Etymology

From French vaisseau rasé, from raser (“to rase, to cut down ships”). See raze and rase (verbs).

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