razee
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- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 5
Definition of razee
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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
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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
- (transitive)To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
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(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!"”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French vaisseau rasé, from raser (“to rase, to cut down ships”). See raze and rase (verbs).
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